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American  academy  of  poHtical  and  social  science.  American 
water\Yays. 
Philadelphia:  Amer'ican  academy  of  political  and  social 
science,  1908.  Hi,  (1),  299  pp.  8°.  {Annals  of  the 
American  academy  of  political  and  social  science,  vol.  31, 
no.  1,  January,  1908.) 

Contents. — (tur  national  inland  waterways  policy,  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt,  pp.  1-11;  Present  status  of  the  Panama 
project,  by  Henry  L.  Abbot,  pp.  12-35;  Legislative  program 
Congress  should  adopt  for  improvement  of  American  water- 
ways, by  Joseph  E.  Ransdell,  pp.  36-47 ;  The  use  and  develop- 
ment of  American  waterways,  by  Francis  G.  Newlands,  pp. 
48-66;  The  Delaware  river,  by  J.  Hampton  Moore,  pp.  67-72; 
Engineering  features  of  Chesapeake  and  Delaware  and  Nor- 
folk-Beaufort waterways,  by  C.  A.  F.  Flagler,  pp.  73-80; 
Cape  Cod  canal,  by  William  Barclay  Parsons,  pp.  81-91; 
Atlantic  coastwise  canals :  their  history  and  present  status, 
by  G.  D.  Luetscher,  pp.  92-101 ;  The  anthracite-tidewater 
canals,  by  Chester  Lloyd  Jones,  pp.  102-116 ;  The  New  York 
canals,  by  John  A.  Fairlie,  pp.  117-127 ;  Transportation  on  the 
Great  Lakes,  by  Walter  Thayer,  pp.  128-138 ;  The  improve- 
ment of  the  Ohio  river,  by  John  L.  Vance,  pp.  139-145 ;  Mis- 
sissippi improvements  and  traffic  prospects,  by  R.  B.  Way, 
pp.  146-163 ;  Water  power  in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  by  Cal- 
vin O.  Althouse,  pp.  164-177;  The  improvement  of  the  Mis- 
souri river  and  its  usefulness  as  a  traffic  route,  by  Lawrence 
M.  Jones,  pp.  178-188 ;  Columbia  river  improvement  and 
the  Pacific  Northwest,  by  Frederick  G.  Young,  pp.  189- 
202 ;  Reclamation  of  arid  west  by  federal  government,  by 
Arthur  P.  Davis,  pp.  20.3-218;  The  relation  of  forests  to 
stream  control,  by  Gifford  Pinchot,  pp.  219-227;  The  inland 
waterways  of  Great  Britain  and  the  plans  under  considera- 
tion for  their  improvement,  by  Urquhart  A.  Forbes,  pp.  228- 
245 ;  The  present  significance  of  German  inland  waterways, 
by  Walther  Lotz,  pp.  246-262. 

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The    Atlantic    deeper    waterways    conference.      Philadelphia^ 

1907.     Report    of   the   proceedings.      Nov.    18-20,    1907. 

Published  by  the  Atlantic  deeper  waterways  association. 

Compiled  and  edited  by  Addison  B.  Burk. 

Philadelphia:    The    l)ook   j^rint,   January,   1908.     30 Jf   pp. 

Plate.     8°. 

Contains  the  following  addresses: 

Inland  waterways  in  the  United  States,  by  Francis  G.  New- 
lands  ;  Inland  waterways  along  the  Atlantic  coast,  by  Charles 
Heber  Clark;  The  cut  through  Cape  Cod,  by  William  Bar- 
clay rarsons;  Another  canal  across  Cape  Cod,  by  Loyed  E. 
Cliamberlain;  Long  Island  Sound  and  the  northern  ap- 
proaches to  New  York,  by  Joseph  A.  Goulden ;  The  Hudson 
river  outlet  from  the  Erie  canal  to  the  sea,  by  William  B. 
Jones;  New  York  harbor — its  commercial  and  naval  signifi- 
cance and  the  apjiroaches  from  Raritan  bay,  by  George  E. 
Waldo;  The  Delaware  and  Raritan  canal — its  history  and 
commerce,  by  Edward  C.  Stokes;  Engineering  features  of  a 
Trans-New  Jersej-  canal,  by  Lewis  M.  Haupt;  The  Delaware 
river  from  Trenton  to  Philadelphia,  and  from  Philadelphia 
south,  bj'  Joel  Cook ;  The  Chesapeake  and  Delaware  canal — 
its  history  and  commerce,  by  Anthony  Iliggins ;  The  Chesa- 
peake bay  and  its  connection  with  the  Delaware,  by  Felix 
Angus ;  Hampton  Roads  and  the  Chesapeake  approaches  to 
Maryland,  A'irginia  and  North  Carolina,  by  Hugh  R.  Gar- 
den ;  Behind  Hatteras — The  Norfolk-Beaufort  route,  by  John 
H.  Small ;  The  engineering  outlook — Chesapeake  and  Dela- 
ware and  Norfolk-Beaufort  route,  by  C.  A.  Flagler ;  Looking 
south  from  Beaufort,  by  C.  P.  Goodyear ;  Inland  waterways 
from  the  Florida  view-point,  by  George  F.  Miles. 

Bates,  Lindon  "Wallace.  The  navigation  interests  of  nations  in 
ports  and  waterways,  and  modern  means  for  their  im- 
provement. 
Paris:  Impr.  P.  Dupont,  1900.  5!f  pp.  Plates.  Plan.  4°. 
{viiith  Into'national  congress  on  navigation.  Paris  1900. 
Third  section.^ 

Benyaurd,   W.  H.   H.     From  Lake  Michigan  to  the  Mississippi 
river. 
Puhlished  hy  the  Michigan  and  Mississippi  canal  commis- 
sion, Davenport,  Iowa.     \n.  fZ.]     15  pp.     8°. 

Boston.     Board  of  trade.     Proceedings.     Relative  to  a  canal  from 
the  lakes  to  the  Mississippi, 
Boston:  Wright  c&  Potter,  1870.     36  pp.     8°. 

British  iron  trade  association.  American  industrial  conditions 
and  competition ;  reports  of  the  commissioners  appointed 
by  the  British  iron  trade  association,  to  enquire  into  the 


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iron,  steel,  and  allied  industries  of  the  United  States,    Ed. 

by  J.  Stephen  Jeans. 

London:  The   British   iron   trade   association^   1902.     xxei^ 

590  pp.    Illustrations.    Folded  plates.    Folded  map.    8°. 

"  Transportation  systems  and  conditions,"  pp.  74-112 :  A.  Rail- 
road transportation ;  B.  American  lake  transportation ;  C. 
River  transportation ;  D.  Canal  transportati<jn ;  E.  Ocean 
freiglits. 

Brock,   S.  G.     The  commerce  of  the  Great  Lakes,  the  Mississippi 

river  and  its  tributaries. 

Washington :    Government  printing  office.,  1892.     (^) ,  m,  Ixi., 

96  pp.    Folded  map.    8°.    (U.  S.  52d  Congress,  1st  session. 

House  executive  document  no.  6,  part  2.) 

Forms  part  2  of  the  U.  S.  Treasury  department.  Bureau  of 
statistics,  Report  on  Commerce  and  navigation,  1891, 

Brown,  G.  P.  Drainage  channel  and  waterway.  A  history  of  the 
effort  to  secure  an  effective  and  harmless  method  for  the 
disposal  of  the  sewage  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  to  create 
a  navigable  channel  between  Lake  Michigan  and  the  Mis- 
sissippi river. 
Chicago:  R.  R.  Donnelley  cfe  sons  company.,  189^.  ix,  (i), 
480  pp.     Plates.     Diagrams.     Maps.     8°. 

Canada.     Depart?nent  of  public  works.     Report  of  the  chief  engi- 
neer of  public  works  on  the  navigation  of  the  river  St. 
Lawrence  between  Lake  Ontario  and  Montreal. 
Ottawa:  P/inted  by  Maclean,  Rogers  &  co.,  1875.    110  pp. 
8°. 

Report   of  the   Minister   of  public   works  on   the 


works  under  his  control  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  Jinie  30, 
1906,    submitted    in   accordance   with   the   provisions    of 
chapter  36,  section  37,  of  the  revised  statutes  of  Canada. 
Ottawa:  Printed  by  S.  E.  Dawson,  1907.     8°.     {/Sessional 
paper,  no.  19-1907.) 

Return  of  the  recent  survey  and  report  of  the  engi- 
neers on  the  Ottawa  ship  canal. 

Quebec:  Printed  by  Thompson  c&  co.,  1860.    56  pp.    Folded 
map.     8°. 
Cover-title. 

Department  of  railways  and  canals.    Annual  report  for  the 

fiscal  year  from  July  1,  1905,  to  June  30,  1906. 
Ottawa:  Printed  by  S.  E.  Dawson,  1906.     8°.     (^Sessional 
paper  no.  20-1907.) 

The  latest  report  received.    The  earlier  reports  are  also  in  the 
Library. 


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Canada.  Parliament.  Senate.  Special  committee  on  canal  connect- 
ing Lake  Huron  with  the  St.  Lawrence.  Keport,  etc.,  of 
the  Special  committee  of  the  Senate  of  Canada  upon  the 
feasibility  and  advantages  of  a  waterway  connecting  Lake 
Huron  with  the  St.  Lawrence  via  the  Ottawa  River— the 
Montreal,  Ottawa  and  Georgian  Ba}^  canal. 
Ottawa:  Printed  hy  S.  E.  Dawson,  1898.  51  pp.  and  port- 
folio of  3  folded  maps.  Jf°.  {Canada.  Parliament,  1898. 
Senate.  Journals.  Appendix  no.  4-) 
Cover-title. 

Royal  co7nmission  on  transportation.     Report  of  the  Royal 

commission  on  transportation,  appointed  19th  May,  1903. 
[Ottawa,  1905'].  67  pp.  8°.  {Supplemeiit  to  the  Report 
of  the  Minister  of  public  works,  1905.) 

"  luvestigatiou  of  questions  affecting  the  transportation  of 
Canadian  products  to  the  markets  of  the  world  through  and 
l)y  Canadian  ports." 

Chandler,  A\'illiam.  Illustrated  history  of  the  St.  Mary's  Falls 
shij)  canal.  The  early  history  of  the  canal  is  taken  from 
Mr.  William  Chandler's  report  to  Governor  Charles  M. 
Crosswell,  of  Michigan,  made  in  1877. 
Detroit:  Chapman  cfe  Kihhy,  1893.  {12)  pp.  Plates. 
Folded  taUe.    Sq.  12°. 

Chicago.     Commission  on  the  Chicago  River.     Report,  submitted 
December  11,  1899. 
\CUcago,  1899 f\    10  pp.    TaUes.    8°. 

Committee    on   statistics.     The   necessity    of   a   ship-canal 

between  the  East  and  the  West.  Report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  statistics  for  the  city  of  Chicago,  submitted  to 
the  National  convention  assembled  at  Chicago,  June  2, 
1863. 
Chicago:  Tribune  company'' s  booh  and  job  printing  office, 
1863.     Jt5  pp.     8°. 

Cincinnati.      Committee  of  citizens  on  improvement  of  the  Ohio 
Rirer.     Report  of  conunittee  on  the  best  mode  of  improv- 
ing navigation,  at  the  falls  of  the  Ohio. 
Cincinnati:  Gazette  company  steam  printing  house,  1859. 
50  pp.     8°. 

"  The  Louisville  and  Portland  canal  company  "  :    pp.  25-59. 

Chamber  of  commerce  and  merchants''  exchange.     Rej^ly  of 

the  Chamber  of  commerce  of  Cincinnati,  to  the  inquiries 


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made  by  S.  B.  W.  McLean,  esq,,  collector  of  the  port  of 
Cincinnati,  on  the  subject  of  the  improvement  of  the  falls 
of  the  Ohio  River. 
Cincinnati:  G.  W.  Tag  art  cfe  go.,  1853.    20  pp.    8°. 

Clements,   Isaac.     Transportation  and  improvements  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi Eiver.     Speech  in  the  House  of  Representatives, 
Saturday,  February  14,  1874. 
[Washi7igton:  Beardsley  c&  Snodgrass,  1874-]     ^  pp-     8°. 

Congressional  convention,  jSt.  Louis,  1873.     Proceedings  of  the 

Congressional  convention,  held  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis, 

on  13th,  14th  and  15th  days  of  May,  1873.    Pub.  by  order 

of  executive  committee.     D.  H.  MacAdam,  secretary. 

St.  Louis:  Woodward,  Tiernan  &  Hale,  1873.     vii,  120  pp. 

"The  Congressional  convention,  the  proceedings  of  which  are 
published  in  this  volume,  originated  among  the  merchants  of 
the  city  of  St.  Louis,  and  was  suggested  by  their  practical 
knowledge  of  the  needs  of  the  South  and  West,  for  improved 
and  extended  lines  of  water  transportation  to  the  sea- 
board. .  .  . 

"  The  members  of  both  Houses  of  Congress  and  the  Governors 
of  the  States  were  invited  to  form  the  convention."  Intro- 
duction. 

Cooley,  Charles  Horton.     The  theory  of  transportation. 

[^Baltimore'] :  American  economic  association,  1894.  14^  PP- 
8°.  [Publications  of  the  American  econonnic  association. 
Monographs,  i\  9,  no.  3.) 

Cooley,  Lyman  Edgar.  The  lakes  and  gulf  waterway,  as  related 
to  the  Chicago  sanitary  problem.  The  general  project  of 
a  waterway  from  Lake  Michigan  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 
A  i^reliminary  report  with  appendices,  maps  and  profiles. 
Chicago:  Press  of  J.  W.  Weston,  [1891].  xv,  92,  34  pp- 
Illustrations.     Folded  plates.     Maps.     4°- 

Statistics  of  marine  commerce  on  the  Great  Lakes. 


(In  International  deep  waterwaj-s  association.  I'roceedings 
of  the  first  annual  convention,  Cleveland,  Sept.  24—26,  1895, 
pp.  338-342.     Cleveland,  1895.     8°.) 

Ultimate  development  of  interior  water  transportation. 

(In  International  deep  waterways  association.  Troceedings  of 
the  first  annual  convention,  Cleveland,  Sept.  24-26,  1895,  pp. 
305-310.     Cleveland,  1895.     8°.) 


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Cowden,  Jolm.     Report  on  the  gateway  to  the  seas,  made  in  Mem- 
phis, June  21,  1876-July  21,  1877. 
Memphis:  Traeij  d'  co.,  [1877].    23  pp.    Folded  map.    8°. 
{Cojntnercial   freedom    for    the    Mississippi    Valley.,    2d 
paper.) 

Cram,  Tliomas  Jefferson.  Memoir  upon  the  northern  interoceanic 
route  of  commercial  transit,  between  tide  water  of  Puget 
Sound  of  the  Pacific,  and  tide  water  on  the  St.  Lawrence 
Gulf  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean.  Written  for  and  read  before 
the  Board  of  trade,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Detroit:  Board  of  trade  [1869?].    35  pp.    Folded  map.    8°. 

Davis,  Charles  E.  L.  B.     St.  Mary's  Falls  canal,  Michigan.     Sta- 
tistical report  of  lake  commerce  passing  through  canal  at 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Michigan  and  Ontario,  during  season  of 
1905. 
[n.  p.]    1906.    22  pp.    Plates.    Folded  map.    8°. 

Deep  waterways  convention.     Proceedings,  Detroit,  Mich.,  De- 
cember 17  and  18,  1891. 
[Detroit] :  Detroit  free  press  printing  co.,  1892.     95  pp.  8°, 
(Lake  transportation.) 

Dixon,  Frank  Haigh.     Water  transportation:  its  economic  impor- 
tance. 

(In    St.    Louis    railway    club.     Official    proceedings,    vol,    10, 

1905,  pp.  8-33.) 
•'  Discusses  the  economic  importance  of  water  transportation 

in  the  United  States  at  the  present  time,  under  the  heads 

of    ocean,    lake,    river,    and    canal    transportation."     Eng. 

Index.     Feb.  1906:  159. 

Ely,  Richard  T.     The  taritf  and  trusts — Expenditures  for  internal 
improvements. 

{In  Shaw,  Albert,  ed.     The  national  revenues:  a  collection  of 
papers     by     American     economists,     pp.     oG-67.     Chicago, 

1S8S.     32°.) 

Fairchild,  Lucius.     Water  communication  between  the  Mississippi 
and  the  Lakes. 
Madison,  ^Yis.:  Wood  d'  Culver,  1870.     88  pp.     8°. 

Flower,  Frank  Abial.     Toronto  deep  waterways  convention.     Sep- 
tember 17-20,  1894.     Report  by  Frank  A.  Flower,  dele- 
gate from  Superior,  Wisconsin. 
Superior,  Wis.:  Hallock-Harmon-Leader  co.,  1891^.    12  pp. 
12\ 

Cover-title. 


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Fox,  S.  Waters.  Technical  methods  of  river  improvement  as  de- 
veloped on  the  lower  Missouri  river,  by  the  general  gov- 
ernment, from  1870-1003. 

(]h  American  society  of  civil  engineers.  Proceedings,  vol.  31, 
Jan.,  1905,  pp.  37-83.    Plates.    Plans.    New  York,  1905.    S°.) 

Fox  and  Wisconsin  improvement  company.     Report  and  ac- 
companying documents.     December,  1856. 
Neiv  York:  Wm.  0.  Bryant  &  co.,  1857.     17,  (1),  scxiv  pp. 
Maps.     !f°. 

Fox  and  Wisconsin  rivers  improvement  committee.  Fox 
and  Wisconsin  rivers  improvement.  Letter  of  the  River 
improvement  committee  in  regard  to  the  Fox  and  Wiscon- 
sin rivers  route  between  the  Mississippi  and  the  Lakes. 
Green  Bay:  Robinson  d:  hrother,  hook  and  joh  printers, 
1875.    15  pp.    Map.    5°. 

Fox  and  Wisconsin  rivers  improvement  convention,  Prairie 
du  Chien,  ISGS.  Water  communication  between  the  Mis- 
sissippi and  the  lakes.  Memorial  to  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States  on  the  improvement  of  the  navigation  of 
the  Fox  and  Wisconsin  rivers,  submitted  by  the  canal 
convention  held  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  in  the  state  of  Wis- 
consin, Xovember  10,  1868,  and  the  proceedings  of  the 
convention. 
Madison.  Wis.:  Atwood  cfc  Ruhlee,  printers,  1869.  56  pp. 
8°. 

Water    communication    between    the    Mississippi    and    the 

Lakes.  Memorial  to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States, 
and  the  supplement,  on  the  improvement  of  the  naviga- 
tion of  the  Wisconsin  and  Fox  rivers  submitted  by  the 
canal  conventions  held  at  Prairie  dii  Chien  .  .  .  Wiscon- 
sin, Nov.  10,  1868,  and  at  Portage  City,  Oct.  20,  1869,  and 
the  Proceedings  of  the  conventions. 
Madison,  Wis.:  Atwood  cfi  Culoer,  hook  and  joh  printers, 
1870.     88  pp.     Maps.     8°. 

Francis,    Charles.     Comparative   study   of  modern   ship   canals. 

{In  International  deep  waterways  association.  I'roceedings 
of  the  first  annnal  convention,  Cleveland,  Soj^t.  24-26,  1805, 
pp.  300-110.     Cleveland,  1S!)5.     S°.) 

Great  Britain.  Royal  (otnmission  on  canals  and  waterways.  Re- 
port [s]  of  the  Royal  commission  appointed  to  enquire 
into  and  to  report  on  the  canals  and  inland  navigations  of 


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the  United  Kingdom.  Presented  to  both  houses  of  Parlia- 
ment by  command  of  His  IMajesty. 
London:  Printed  for  11.  M.  Stationery  of.  hij  Wyman  (& 
som,  limited,  1906--1908.  3  vols.  Folded  maps.  F°. 
{Parliament.  Sessional  papers.  Cd.  3183-3184,  3716- 
3718.) 

Lord  Sbiittleworth,  cliairmaii. 

Contents. — Vol.1.  (Part  I.)  First  report  of  tlie  Royal  Com- 
mission. (Part  II.)  Minutes  of  evidence  and  appendices 
thereto  .  .  .  with  indexes.  Vol.  II.  (Part  I.)  Second  re- 
port of  the  Royal  Commission.  (Part  II.)  Ireland. 
Minutes  of  evidence  and  appendices  thereto  .  .  .  with 
indexes.  Vol.  III.  England  and  Wales,  and  Scotland.  Min- 
utes of  evidence  and  appendices  thereto  accompanying  the 
second  report    (Vol.  II,  Part  I)    .  .  .  with  indexes. 

Contains  testimony  regarding  canals  in  Austria-Hungary,  Bel- 
gium, France,  Germany,  Holland,  and  the  United  States. 

Great  canals  of  the  world.  The  Suez,  Kaiser  Wilhelm,  Man- 
chester, Canadian,  St.  Marys  Falls,  New  York  state,  and 
other  canal  systems  of  the  world. 

{In  United  States.  Department  of  commerce  and  labor. 
Monthly  sunmiary  of  commerce  and  finance  of  the  United 
States,  no.  7,  series  1904-1905,  Jan.,  1905,  pp.  2.373-245(5. 
Washington,  1905.     4°.) 

Harbor  and  river  convention.  Chicago,  18^7.  Proceedings  of 
the  Harbor  and  river  convention,  held  at  Chicago,  July  5, 
1847:  together  with  full  list  of  names  of  delegates  in 
attendance:  letters  read  at  the  convention,  and  a  detailed 
aj^ioendix.  Published  by  order  of  the  convention. 
Chicago:  Printed  hy  R.  L.  Wilson,  181,!/.    79  pp.    12°. 

Harcourt,  Leveson  Francis  Vernon-  Harbours  and  docks:  their 
physical  features,  history,  construction,  equipment,  and 
maintenance,  with  statistics  as  to  their  commercial  devel- 
opment. 
Oxford:  Clarendon  press,  1885.  2  vols.  Ilhistrations. 
Plates.  Diagrams.  8°.  {Clarendon  press  series.) 
Contents. — v.  1.  Text.     v.  2.  Plates. 

Rivers  and  canals;  the  flow,  control,  and  improvement  of 

rivers  and  the  design,  construction,  and  development  of 
canals  both  for  navigation  and  irrigation,  Avith  statistics 
of  the  traffic  on  inland  waterways.  2d  ed.,  re-written  and 
enlarged. 
Oxford:  Clarendon  press,  1896.  2  vols.  Illustrations. 
Plates.    8°. 


BOOKS  RELATING  TO  DEEP  WATERWAYS  11 

Contents. — Vol.  1.  Rivers :  Physical  characteristics ;  Measure- 
ment and  formulae  of  discliarsro;  Itej^ulation  and  canaliza- 
tion of  rivers;  Dredjilng  and  excavating;  Locks;  and  fixeil, 
and  draw-door  weirs;  Movable  weirs;  Prediction  of  floods; 
and  protection  from  inundations;  Deltas  of  tideless  rivers; 
and  improvement  of  their  outlets ;  Jetties  and  breakwaters 
at  the  mouths  of  rivers ;  Tidal  flow  in  rivers ;  and  forms 
of  estuaries;  Dredging  in  tidal  rivers;  Training  works  in 
estuaries;  Experimental  investigations  on  training  works 
in  estuaries.  Vol.  2.  Canals:  Canal  works;  Canal  locks; 
Canal  inclines  and  lifts ;  Irrigation  works ;  Perennial  irriga- 
tion canals;  Inland  navigation;  Forms  of  barges;  methods 
of  traction ;  and  ship-canals  instead  of  rivers ;  Ship-canals 
for  ports;   Interoceanic  ship-canals. 

Harvey,  Mrs.  Sarah  Van  Epps.     Jubilee  annals  of  the  Lake  Su- 
perior ship  canal;  the  world's  greatest  mechanical  water- 
way. 
Cleveland :    Press  of  the  J.  B.  Savage  company,  1906.     267, 
(1)  J) p.     Illustrations.     Plates.     8°. 

Hulbert,  Archer  Butler.    The  great  American  canals.    Y,  1-2. 

Cleveland,  0.:  The  A.  H.   Clark  company,  1901^.     2   vols. 

Frontispieces.    Plates.    Folded  maps.    ^°.     (Hi'^  Historic 

highways  of  America,  v.  13-14') 

Contents. — v.  1.  The  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal  and  the 
Pennsylvania  canal,     v.  2.  The  Erie  canal. 

Humphreys,  Andrew  A.,  and  Henry  L.  Abbot.  Eeport  upon  the 
physics  and  hydraulics  of  the  Mississippi  river:  upon  the 
protection  of  the  alluvial  region  against  overflow;  and 
upon  the  deejjening  of  the  mouths.  Reprinted  with  addi- 
tions. 
Washington:  Government  printing  of/ice,  1876.  xxiii,  (1), 
691  pp.    Folded  plates.    Folded  maps.    4°. 

Illinois.  Special  commission,  Chicago  drainage  channel.  Report 
of  the  special  commission  appointed  by  John  R.  Tanner, 
governor  of  Illinois,  under  section  27  of  the  "Act  to  cre- 
ate sanitary  districts."  Approved  May  29,  1889. 
{Chicago:  Cameron,  Amherg  &  co.'],  1900.  131,  (1)  pp. 
Plates.     Plans.     Tables.     8°. 

Contains  the  report  of  D.  Fitzgerald,  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Chicago  drainage  channel,  and  the  acts  of  the  Illinois  legis- 
lature and  of  Congress  relating  to  the  same. 

Illinois  and  Mississippi  River  and  canal  improvement  commis- 
sion. A  national  work.  The  all-water  route  from  the 
.upper  Mississippi  River  to  New  York  and  the  East.     The 


]2  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS 

voice  of  boards  of  trade  and  state  legislatures.     Published 
by  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi  River  and  canal  improve- 
ment commission. 
Woshhifffon,  D.  C,  1882.     12  ;;;;.     Folded  map.     8°. 

Illinois  river  improvement  convention.     Waterway  improve- 
ment.   A  matter  of  great  national  importance.     Proceed- 
ings of  the  Illinois  river  improvement  convention,  held  at 
Peoria,  Illinois,  October  11  and  12,  1887. 
Peoria,  III. :  National  democrat  frint,  1887.    1^7  pp.    8°. 

International  deep  waterways  association.  Proceedings  of  the 
first  annual  convention  of  the  International  deep  water- 
ways association,  Cleveland,  September  2-1,  25,  26,  1895: 
with  an  appendix.  Also  a  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
Toronto  convention. 
[Cleveland :  W.  M.  Bayne  printing  co.,  189-5.]     Jf65  pp.    8°. 

Contents. — The  deep-water  movement,  5-24;  Proceedings  of 
the  First  annual  convention,  25-324 ;  The  effect  of  deep 
water  between  the  Great  Lal^es  and  the  sea  in  develo])ing 
iron  and  mineral  resources,  Charles  R.  Van  Hise,  71-73 ; 
Effect  of  deep  water  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  sea  on 
domestic  iron  mining,  Martin  Pattison,  74-7G;  L^ltimate 
efifect  of  deep  water  between  the  Great  Lakes  and  the  sea 
on  iron  and  steel  manufacturing,  Arthur  J.  Moxham,  77-80; 
The  necessities  and  advantages  of  a  ship  canal  to  the  ocean, 
Denison  B.  Smith,  81-88;  Volume  and  Aalue  of  commerce 
tributary  to  an  enlarged  waterway  system,  James  Fisher, 
89-99;  Comparative  study  of  modern  ship  canals,  Charles 
Francis,  100-110;  Effect  of  deep  water  between  the  Great 
Lakes  and  the  sea  upon  railw\iy  traffic  and  profits,  Emory 
R.  Johnson,  112-117;  Sectionalism  and  railways  vs.  deep 
waterways,  L.  M.  Haupt,  118-124;  Regulation  of  lake  levels 
with  reference  to  improving  waterways,  George  Y.  Wisner, 
125-134;  Regulating  levels  of  the  Great  Lakes,  Thomas  T. 
Johnson,  135-139 ;  Discussion :  W.  Livingstone,  140-142 ;  B. 
A.  Eckhart,  142-14G;  L.  E.  Cooley,  147-150;  Lake  level 
regulation  is  a  depth-restorative,  G.  W.  Blasdel,  152-153; 
Ultimate  effect  of  deep  water  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the 
sea  on  our  grain  and  flour  business,  L.  R.  Hurd,  155-159; 
Cost,  character  and  utility  of  existing  Great  Lakes,  Cham- 
plain  and  St.  Lawrence  improvements,  Thomas  C.  Keefer, 
1G1-I(j3;  Memoranda  respecting  Canadian  canals,  George 
Johnson,  1G4-175 ;  Ls  a  type  of  vessel  to  navigate  fresh  and 
salt  water  practical?  Joseph  R.  Oldham,  176-180;  Modern 
methods  of  canal  excavation,  Isham  Randolph,  lSG-195 ; 
Relation  of  glacial  deposits  to  canal  routes.  G.  Frederick 
Wright,  19G-201 ;  Ultimate  effect  of  deep  water  between  the 
Great  Lakes  and  the  sea  on  dome.stic  shipbuilding,  George 
Tunell,  203-21G;  Effect  of  deep  water  between  the  Great 
Lakes  and   the   sea   upon   the  export   lumber   and   timber 


BOOKS    RELATING    TO    DEEP    WATERWAYS  13 

trade.  Richard  It.  Dobell,  217-218;  A.  L.  Crocker,  21S-221; 
Pueumatie  and  hydraulic  locks,  Chauncey  N.  Dutton',  222- 
240;  Eulargemeut  of  the  Erie  canal,  Thomas  P.  Roberts, 
241-246;  The  relation  of  the  Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  ship 
canal  to  the  coumierce  of  the  Great  Lakes  and  to  the  com- 
merce of  the  proposed  deep  waterway  to  the  Atlantic  ocean, 
Jolni  E.  Shaw,  2G0-264;  New  York  and  deep  water  to  the 
Gi-eat  Lakes,  Thomas  Cnrtis  Clarke,  2T.3-2S0;  Basis  for  co- 
operation between  the  United  States  and  Canada  in  canal 
constrnction  and  maintenance,  Frank  Abial  Flower,  298-304 ; 
Ultimate  development  of  interior  water  transportation, 
Lyman  E.  Cooley,  305-310;  International  deep-water  legisla- 
tion, 328-330;  State  deep-water  legislation,  331-332;  Statis- 
tics of  marine  commerce  on  the  Great  Lakes,  L.  E.  Coolej', 
comp.,  338-342;  Effect  of  depth  npon  artificial  waterways, 
Thomas  C.  Clarke,  34.3-.345;  Chauncey  N.  Dutton,  345-352; 
Lake  level  effects  on  account  of  the  sanitary  canal  of  Chi- 
cago, L.  E.  Cooley,  361-368;  Thomas  T.  Johnston,  368-383; 
An  existing  outlet  to  the  sea,  Alexander  R.  Smith,  384-389; 
Toronto  deep  waterways  convention.  300—149. 

International  waterways  comniission.  Deeper  waterways  from 
the  Great  Lakes  to  the  Atlantic.  Reports  of  the  Canadian 
members  of  the  International  Commission.  Printed  by 
order  of  Parliament,  1897.  62  pp.  Folded  map.  8°. 
{Canada.     Sessional  papers.,  vol.  32.     1898,  Xo.  12.) 

{U.  S.  and  Canada).    Progress  report  [of  the  American  sec- 

tion of  the  International  waterways  commission].     lst-2d, 
Dec.  1.  1905,  Dec.  1,  1906. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1905-1906,    2  vols, 
in  1.     8°. 

Report  upon  the  Chicago  drainage  canal  by  the  Interna- 

tional waterways  commission. 
Washington:  Government  pnnting  office,  1907.     (2),  SJ/.  pp. 
8°.     {War  department  document  no.  293.) 

Report  upon   the  conditions  existing  at   Sault  Ste.   Marie 

with  rules  for  the  control  of  the  same,  recommended  by 

the  International  waterways  commission.     [May  3,  1906.] 

{Buffalo,  1906.']     20  pp.     8' 


?o 


Reports  of  the  International  waterways  commission.  Can- 
adian section  and  American  section.     1905. 

{Ottawa,  1906.]  10 Jf  pp.  ^°.  {Canada.-  Department  of 
public  works.  Sujjplement  to  report  1905.  International 
waterways  commission.) 


14  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS 

Contexts. — I'rofe'ress  report  of  tlie  Cauadian  section,  dated 
December  24,  1005.  together  with  appendices  lettered  A  to  Z 
and  Al,  including  correspondence  and  document  relating  to 
the  affairs  of  the  Commission  in  addition  to  the  following 
reports:  App.  V.  Notes  on  the  retrocession  of  Niagara  Falls, 
by  J.  C.  K.  Laflamme;  App.  Z.  Detailed  relation  of  an  inves- 
tigating trip  made  by  a  subcommittee  of  the  Commission, 
composed  of  J.  P.  Mabee,  George  Clinton,  and  Thomas  Cote 
through  the  Great  Lakes  and  rivers  connecting  the  same; 
App.  Al.  Interim  report  of  the  American  section  (progress 
report  dated  December  1,  1905). 

International  waterways  commission.      Eeports  of  the  Inter- 
national waterATays  commission,  190C. 
Ottawa:  PHnted  hy  S.  E.  Dawson,  1907.     viii,  293  yp.    8°. 
{Canada.     Dejmrtment  of  'public  works,  1906,  vol.  2.     Ses- 
sional paper,  1907,  no.  19a.) 

Contents. — 1.  First  progress  report  of  the  Cauadian  members; 
2.  Second  interim  report  of  the  Canadian  section ;  3.  Joint 
report  of  the  Commission  on  conditions  at  Niagara  Falls, 
with  reconnnendatious ;  4.  Joint  report  of  the  Commission 
on  conditions  existing  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  with  rules  for 
the  control  of  the  same;  5.  Joint  report  on  the  application 
of  the  International  Development  Company  for  permission  to 
construct  regulating  works  on  the  Richelieu  river;  6.  Joint 
report  of  the  Commission  on  the  application  of  the  Minne- 
sota Canal  and  Power  Company,  of  Duluth,  Minn.,  for  per- 
mission to  divert  certain  waters  in  the  State  of  Minnesota 
from  the  boundary  waters  between  the  United  States  and 
Canada  ;  7.  Third  report  of  the  Canadian  sectiou ;  8.  Joint 
report  on  the  Chicago  Drainage  canal ;  9.  Joint  report  of 
the  Commission  on  the  location  of  the  boundary  line  between 
the  United  States  and  Canada  through  Lake  Erie ;  Ameri- 
can section — Second  progress  report — December  1,  1906  ; 
Report  of  the  American  section  on  the  preservation  of 
Niagara    Falls. 

Reports  upon  the  existing  water-power  situation  at  Niagara 

Falls,  so  far  as  concerns  the  diversion  of  water  on  the 
American  side,  by  the  American  members  of  the  Interna- 
tional wateivs'ays  commission  and  Captain  Charles  W. 
Kiitz,  corps  of  engineers,  U.  S.  army. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1906.  28  pp.  8°. 
{War  department,  document  no.  289.  Office  of  the  chief 
of  engineers.) 

Second   interim   report  of  the  Canadian   section   and  first 

joint  report  of  the  International  waterways  commission. 
Ottaica,  1906.     16  pp.     8°. 

Report  of  the  Canadian  section,  dated  April  25,  1906,  and 
report  of  the  joint  commission,  dated  May  3,  1906,  relate 
to  regulating  the  uses  of  the  waters  of  the  Niagara  River 
and  the  preservation  of  the  Falls. 


BOOKS    RELATING    TO    DEEP    WATERWAYS  15 

Jeans,  James  Stephen.     C-anada's  resources  and  possibilities.    With 
special  reference  to  the  iron  and  allied  industries,  and  the 
increase  of  trade  with  the  mother  country. 
London:  Offices  of  the  British  iron  trade  association^  lOOJ^. 
XV,  208  pp.     Ilhtstrations.     Maps.     8°. 

Distribution  and  transport,  i)p.  249-259.  Contains : — Cana- 
dian  Waterways.     Shipping  and   Sliipbuildinj?. 

Johnson,   Edwin   Ferry.     The  navigation  of  the  lakes  and   navi- 
gable communications  therefrom  to  the  seaboard,  and  to 
the  Mississippi  River,  and  relation  of  the  former  to  the 
lines  of  railway  leading  to  the  Pacific. 
Hartford:  Case,  Lockwood  <&  company,  1800.     1^8  pp.     8°. 

Johnson,  Emory  R.     Effect  of  deep  water  between  the  Great  Lakes 

and  the  sea  upon  railway  traffic  and  profits. 

(In  International  deep  waterways  association.  Proceedings 
of  tlie  first  annual  couAention,  Cleveland,  Sept.  24-26,  1895, 
pp.  112-117.     Cleveland,  189.5.     8°.) 

Inland  waterways,  their  relation  to  transportation. 

Philadelphia:  American   academy   of   political   and   social 

science,  189S.  164  VV-  ^° •  {American  academy  of  polit- 
ical and,  social  science.  Annals,  supplement,  September, 
189S.) 

Report  on  the  industrial  and  commercial  value  of  the  Isth- 

mian canal. 

{In  United  States.  Isthmian  canal  commission,  Report,  1899- 
1901,  vol.  2,  pp.  515-617.     Washington,  1901-1902.    8°.) 

Preface:  Scope  and  method  of  the  investigation  ;  The  Isthmian 
canal  and  the  industries  and  trade  of  the  southern  states; 
The  canal  and  the  industries  and  trade  of  the  northeastern 
section  of  the  United  States;  The  canal  and  the  central 
West;  The  canal  and  the  Pacific  coast  states;  The  coal  sup- 
ply for  the  commerce  and  countries  of  the  Pacific — the  canal 
and  the  coal  trade  of  the  United  States;  The  Isthmian  canal 
and  th(!  iron  and  steel  industries  of  the  United  States:  The 
canal  and  the  ship-building  and  maritime  interests  of  the 
United  States;  Concerning  the  use  of  an  Isthmian  canal  by 
sailing  vessels;  The  canal  and  the  traffic  of  American  rail- 
ways; The  ti'ade  and  industries  of  western  South  America 
and  the  effect  of  the  canal  upon  them ;  .Tapan  and  the  Isth- 
mian canal ;  China  and  the  Isthmian  canal ;  The  canal  and 
the  industries  and  trade  of  Australasia  ;  The  canal  and  the 
Philippines  and  Hawaii ;  The  canal  and  Central  America  and 
western  Mexico;  Comparison  of  distances  by  the  Isthmian 
canal  and  other  routes;  Cargo  tonnage  of  the  existing  mari- 
time commerce  that  might  use  an  Isthmian  canal,  1898-09; 
Tonnage  of  the  vessels  employed  in  the  commerce  that  would 


16  LIBRAKY   OF    CONGRESS 

liave  used  an  Isthmiau  canal  in  1S09;  Traffic  investigation  by 
the  new  Panama  canal  company — comparison  of  the  results 
of  the  three  investigations;  Growth  of  canal  traffic,  1899  to 
1014  and  1914  to  1924 ;  The  question  of  tolls. 

Johnson,  Emory  Iv.     Ocean  and  inland  water  transportation. 

Xew  York:  D.  Appleton  and  convpany^  1906.    xxii,  395  pp. 

Illustrations.     Folded  map.     Forms.     12°.      {Appleton\3 

business  series.) 

"  References    for    further    reading "    at    end    of   most    of    the 

chapters. 
"  Canal,  river,  and  lake  transportation,"  pp.  321-385. 

Johnson,    George.     Memoranda   respecting-   Canadian   canals. 

{In  International  deep  waterways  association.  Pi'oceedings 
of  the  first  annual  convention,  Cleveland,  Sept.  24-26,  1895, 
pp.  104-175.     Cleveland,  1S95.     S°.) 

Judson,  AVilliam  Pierson.     History  of  the  various  projects,  reports, 

discussions  and  estimates  for  reaching  the  Great  Lakes 

from  tidewater.     1TG8-1901. 

[^Osicego.,  X.  Y.^  1901.'\    22  pp.    Folded  map.    S'^.     {Oswego 

historical  society.,  Osivego.^  N.  Y.    Publication.,  no  2.) 

Cover-title :   History  of  the  various  projects,   reports,  discus- 
sions and  estimates  of  canal  routes  across  the  State  of  New^ 
York. 

Lake  Ontario  harbors  for  canal  commerce. 

[Oswego.^  J.  Y.,  1902.]  9  pp.  Folded  profile.  8°.  {Ex- 
tract from  the  Report  of  the  state  engineer  and  surveyor 
of  New  York.    1902.) 

Keefer,  Thomas  C.     Cost,  character  and  utility  of  existing  Great 
Lakes,  Champlain  and  St.  Lawrence  improvements, 

(In  International  deep  waterways  association.  Proceedings 
of  the  first  animal  convention,  Cleveland,  Sept,  24-26,  1895, 
pp.  161-363.     Cleveland,  1895.     S°.) 

Keep,  C.  H.    The  commerce  and  shipping  of  the  Great  Lakes.    Spe- 
cial report. 

(In  United  States.  Treasury  department.  Bureau  of  statis- 
tics. Report  on  the  internal  commerce  of  the  United  States, 
1891,  pp.  1-63.  52d  Congress,  1st  session.  House  document 
no.  6,  part  2.) 

Kelton,  Dwight  H.     History  of  the  Sault  Ste.  Marie  canal. 

Detroit,  Mich.:  [Detroit  free  press  printing  co.],  1888.     13, 
{2)  pp.    8°. 

Kilbourn,  John.     Public   documents  concerning  the   Ohio  canals, 
which  are  to  connect  Lake  Erie  with  the  Ohio  Kiver  .  .  . 


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from  their  commencement  down  to  the  close  of  the  session 
of  the  Legishitnre  of  1831-32. 
Columlus:  7.  A'.  Whiting,  1832.     (4),  ^52,  28,  (2)  pp.     8°. 

Kilbourn,  John.     Same. 

ColumhuH:  I.  N.  Whiting,  1832.     {2),  ^52,  28,  63,  (2)  pp. 

8°. 

Knapp,  Martin  A.     Transportation  and  combination. 

{In  The  American  asssociatiou  for  the  advancement  of  science, 
rroceedings,  vol.  55,  1905,  pp.  459-409.     Phihidelphia,  1906. 

8°.) 

Leverett,  Frank.  The  water  resources  of  Illinois.  Extract  from 
the  Seventeenth  annual  report  of  the  [U.  S.  Geological] 
survey,  1895-96.  Part  II — Economic  geology  and  hydrog- 
raphy. 
Washington:  Government  pri^iting  office,  1896.  156  pp. 
Illustrations.     Plates.     Maps.     4°. 

Contents. — General  statement. — Physical  features. — The  rain- 
fall.— The  run -off. — Navigable  waters. — Water  power. — 
Water  supplies  for  cities  and  villages. — Water  supplies  for 
rural  districts. — Artesian  wells. — Water  analyses. — An  ac- 
count of  the  Paleozoic  rocks  explored  by  deep  borings  at 
Rock  Island,  111.,  and  vicinity,  by  J.  A.  Udden. 

Louisville  and  Cincinnati  commercial  conventions.     Continu- 
ous  water-line    communications    between    the    Mississippi 
and  the  Atlantic.     Memorial  of  the  Louisville  and  Cincin- 
nati commercial  conventions. 
Riehmond :  Clemmitt  d:  Jones,  1873.     If.2  pp.     8°. 

Mills   &  CO.,   Des  Moines,  pul.     A   great  continental   ns  well   as 
national  enterprise,  continuous  water  and  steam  naviga- 
tion, from  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi  to  the  Atlantic 
Ocean. 
Des  Moines:  Mills  d-  co.,  1871.     20  pp.     8°. 

Mississippi  river  commission.     Reports,  1880-1907. 

Printed  in  the  Annual  report  of  the  Chief  of  Engineers,  United 
States  army. 

Mississippi  River  improvement  convention.  Dubuque,  la., 
1866.  Proceedings  of  the  Mississippi  Iviver  improvement 
convention,  held  at  Dubuque,  Iowa,  February  14th  and 

15th,  18GC). 
Dubuque:  Daily    Times   steam    book    press,   1866.     62   pp. 
2  maps.     8°. 
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18  LIBEARY   OF   CONGRESS 

Mississippi  River  improvement  convention.  St.  Louis,  1867. 
Proceedings  of  the  Eiver  improvement  convention,  held  in 
St.  Louis,  February  12  &  13,  1867.  Published  by  order  of 
the  Union,  merchants'  exchange  of  St.  Louis. 
St.  Louis:  G.  Knapp  <&  co.,  1867.  99  pp.  including 
tables.    8°. 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  1877.    A  memorial  to  Congress  to  secure  an 

adequate  appropriation  for  a  prompt  and  thorough  im- 
provement of  the  Mississippi  River,  with  an  apj^endix  by 
Sylvester  Waterhouse,  of  Washington  university. 
St.  Louis:  J.  J.  Daly  &  co.,  printers,  1877.     {'2),  39  pp. 
12°. 

Cover-title:  Give  us  an  unobstructed  Mississippi. 

Quincy,  III.,  1879.     Memorial  of  the  Quincy  River  improve- 

ment convention,  October  15,  1879,  to  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States,  in  regard  to  the  improvement  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  and  its  tributaries. 
St.  Louis:  Glohe-democrat  job  pi'inting  co.,  1880.   13  pp.   8°. 
Cover-title. 

St.  Louis,  1881.     Official  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the 

Mississippi  River  improvement  convention  held  in  Saint 
Louis,  Missouri,  on  October  26th,  27th,  and  28th,  1881, 
including  letters  from  distinguished  men  throughout  the 
country,  and  press  comments.  Together  with  a  memorial 
to  Congress  j)repared  by  the  committee  of  twenty-one,  as 
authorized  by  the  convention. 
Saint  Louis:  Great  western  printing  coinpany,  1881.  ^JfJf. 
pp.    8°. 

Washington,  D.  C,  188]^.     Proceedings  of  the  convention  for 

the  improvement  of  the  Mississippi  River  and  its  nav- 
igable tributaries.     Together  with   a  brief  memorial   to 
Congress,  held  at  Washington,  D.  C,  Feb.  5,  6,  7,  1884. 
From  the  stenographer's  verbatim  report. 
\}Y asldngton,  188J^.'\     {2),  Hi,  100  pp,    8°, 

Vichshurg,   Miss.,   1890.      Proceedings   of   the    Mississippi 

River  improvement  and  levee  convention,  held  at  Vicks- 
burg.  Miss.,  April  30th  and  ]\Iay  1st,  1890. 
[Vicksburg,  Miss.,  1890.']    18  pp.    8°. 

Resolutions   adopted   by   the   inter-state   Mississippi 

River  impro\ement  and  levee  convention,  held  at  Vicks- 


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burg.  Miss.,  May  1st,  1S90.     Accompanied  by  report  of 
coiiiinittee  of  United  States  and  civil  engineers. 
[Vickshurg,  Miss.,  1890.]      (4)  pp.     4°. 
Caption-title. 

Missouri  river  commission.     Reports,  1884-1902. 

Printed  in  the  Annual  report  of  the  Chief  of  Engineers,  United 
States  army. 

Missouri  River  improvement  convention.     Kansas  City,  Mo., 
1885.     Official  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Missouri 
River  convention,  held  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  December  29 
and  30,  1885. 
Kansas  City:  Lawton  &  Hay  ens,  1885.    87  pp.    8°. 
"  Compiled  by  H.  M.  Kirkpatrick,  secretary." 

Montreal.  Board  of  trade.  Reports  on  the  Ottawa  and  French 
river  navigation  projects.  Published  by  order  of  the 
Board  of  trade  of  Montreal. 

Montreal:  Printed  hy  John  Lovell,  1863.    56  pp.    Folded 
maps.    8°. 

Morgan,  George  H.  The  commerce  of  the  Mississippi.  Special 
report. 

(In  United  States.  Treasury  department.  Bureau  of  statis- 
tics. Report  on  the  internal  commerce  of  the  United 
States,  1891,  pp.  65-96.  52d  Congress,  1st  session.  House 
document  no.  6,  part  2.) 

National  board  of  trade.     Inland  water  communication.     Debate 

on  Erie  canal  enlargement. 

(In  its  Proceedings  of  the  fifth  annual  meeting,  1872,  pp. 
96-115.     Boston,  1872.     8°.) 

Report  of  Committee  on  transportation,  &  debate. 

{In  its  Proceedings  of  the  sixth  annual  meeting,  1873,  pp. 
102-104,  110-119,  140-186.     Chicago,  1873.     8°.) 

Report  of  Committee  on  internal  water-ways. 

(In  its  Proceedings  of  the  thirty-first  annual  meeting,  1901, 
pp.  256-276.     Philadelphia,  1901.     S°.) 

Report  of  Committee  on  internal  waterways. 

(In  its  Proceedings  of  the  thirty-third  annual  meeting,  1903, 
pp.  154-183.     Philadelphia,  1903.     8°.) 

Report  of  Committee  on  improvement  of  internal  waterways. 

(In  its  Proceedings  of  the  thirty-fifth  annual  meeting,  1905, 
pp.  180-209.     Philadelphia,  1905.     8°.) 


20  LIBE.^Y   OF   CONGRESS 

National  canal  convention.     ISlemorial  to  the  President  and  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States. 
Chicago:  Tribune  company,  1863.     2^  pp.     8°. 

National  rivers   and  harbors   congress.     Isf,  BaJtifnore,  1901. 
Keport  of  the  proceedings  of  the  National  rivers  and  har- 
bors congress,  held  at  McCo}'  hall,  Johns  Hopkins  univer- 
sity, Baltimore,  :Md.,  October  8th  and  9th,  1901. 
Baltimore:  Fleet,  McGinley  &  CO. ,1901.    129  pp.    8°. 

Contents, — Baltimore  committees — Committees  appointed   by 
the  Congress — Proceedings — Addresses. 

National   ship-canal    convention,    Chicago,   1863.     Proceedings 
of  the  National  ship-canal  convention,  held  at  the  city 
of  Chicago,  June  2  and  3,  1863. 
Chicago:  Trihune  company's  hook  and  job  printing  office, 
1863.     U8  pp.     8' 


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Tlie  Necessity  to  commerce  of  cheap  water  communication,  between 
the  West  and  the  East.    Addressed  to  the  Farmers  of 
Ohio,  Indiana  and  Illinois. 
Toledo,  Ohio,  1877.     {15) pp.    8°. 
Cover-title. 

New  York    (State)    Committee  on  canals,  1899-1900.     Report  of 

the  Committee  on  canals. 

New    York,  1900.     {2),  231   pp.    Folded  plates.     Folded 
maps.     Charts.     8°. 

Report.     Transmitted  to  the  Legislature  January  25, 1900. 

Albany :  J  .B.Lyon,  state  printer,  1900.    xxi,527  pp.    Folded 

plates.    Folded  maps.     Charts.    8°. 

"  Minutes  and  correspondence  of  the  Committee  on  canals " 

.  .  .  pp.  233-527. 
Found  also  in  the  Assembly  documents,  1900,  no.  31. 

North  American  canal  company.     The  North  American  canal. 
An  adequate  outlet  for  a  continental  commerce. 
[n.  p.,  n.  d.']     IJ^  pp.    8°. 

Northwestern  waterways   convention.     Official   report   of   the 
])roceedings  of  the  river  and  harbor  convention  held  in 
Saint  Paul,  Minnesota  on  Sept.  3d  and  4th  1885. 
St.  Paid:  Pioneer  press  company,  1885.    191  pp.    8°. 

Ohio  state  archaeological  and  historical  society.  History  of 
the  Ohio  canals,  their  construction,  cost,  use  and  partial 
abandonment.  Published  by  the  Ohio  state  archaeological 
and  historical  society. 


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Columbus,  O.:  Press  of  F.  J.  Ileer^  1905.     viii,  181  pp. 
Folded  tnaps.    Diagrams.    8°. 

"  Prepared  by  Messrs.  C.  P.  McClelland  and  C.  C.  Huntington, 
two  .  .  .  graduates  of  the  Ohio  state  university,  working 
under  the  direction  of  Prof.  J.  E.  Hagerty." — Introductory 
note. 

Contents. — Introduction. — pt.  I.  History  of  the  Ohio  canals 
[by  C.  C.  Huntington] — pt.  II.  Financial  management  of  the 
canals  [by  C.  P.  McClelland]— pt.  III.  The  value  of  the 
canals  to  the  state  throughout  their  history  [by  C.  C.  Hunt- 
ington ]  — Append  ix . 

Ontario.    Reports  of  the  "  Late  house  of  assembly,"  "  House  of  Com- 
mons," and  the  "  Legislative  assembly "  of  Ontario,  in 
relation  to  the  Huron  &  Ontario  ship  canal.    4th  ed. 
Toronto:  Printed  hy  Hunter.,  Rose  &  company.,  1871.    30, 
(1)  pp.    8^ 


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Owen,    Douglas.     Ports    and    docks;  their    history,    worldng,   and 
national  importance. 
London:  Methuen  &  co.,  1904-     {^),  179  pp.  including  dia- 
grams.    Frontispiece.     Folded  plans.     12°.     {Books  on 
husiness. ) 

Pittsburg.    Chamber  of  commerce.    Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  River  ship 
canal.     Report  of  the  provisional  committee  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  commerce  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
\Baltimore.,  Press  of  the  Friedenwald  com,pany'\,  1897.    269 
pp.     IJlustrations.    3  folded  maps.    8°. 

Quinette  de  Rochemont,  [Emile  Theodore]  baron,  and  H.  Vetil- 
lart.     Les  ports  maritimes  de  I'Amerique  du  Nord  sui" 
I'Atlantique. 
Paris:  V^'^  C.  Dunod,  1898-1904.     3  vols.     Tables  {partly 
folded)  8°  and  portfolio  of  48  plates.    F°. 

Contents.— I.  Les  ports  canadiens.  1S98. — II.  Regime  admin- 
istratif  des  voies  navigables  et  des  ports  aux  fitats-Unis. 
1902.— III.  Les  ports  des  Etats-Unis.     1904. 

Rafter,  George  W.     Hydrology  of  the  state  of  New  York. 

Albany:  New  York  state  education  department,  1905.  902 
pp.  Illustrations.  Plates.  Maps  {partly  folded).  8°. 
{New  York  state  museum  .  .  .  Bulletin  85.  Economic 
geology  12.) 

"  List  of  works  referred  to  ..." :  pp.  875-88.3. 

"  This  report  is  a  revision  of  Water  supply  and  irrigation  pa- 
pers of  the  United  States  Geological  survey,  nos.  24  and  25— 
Water  resources  of  the  state  of  New  York,  published  in 
1899."— Hydrology  of  the  state  of  Sew  York,  />.  -J. 


22  LIBRAE Y   OF    CONGEESS 

Ramsey,  Alexander.     Cheap  transportation  obtained  hj  improved 
water-routes  and  railways.     Speech  in  the  United  States 
Senate,  March  6,  1874. 
Washington:    Government  printing  office^  1874.     9  pp.     12°. 

Bansdell,  Joseph  Euo:ene.     Duty  of  ffovernment  to  improve  water- 
ways and  harbors.     Address  before  the  Mississippi  Valley 
Latin-American  convention,  New  Orleans,  La.,  April  7, 
190G. 
[New  Orleans:  1906.]  fd3,  (1)  pp.    8°. 

Ringwalt,  John  Luther.  Development  of  transportation  systems 
in  the  United  States;  comprising  a  comprehensive  descrip- 
tion of  the  leading  features  of  advancement,  from  the 
colonial  era  to  the  present  time,  in  water  channels,  roads, 
turnpikes,  canals,  railways,  vessels,  vehicles,  cars  and 
locomotives. 
Philadelphia:  Published  hy  the  author.,  Railway  world 
o-ffice,  1888.  398  pp.  Plates.  Portraits.  Maps.  Fac- 
similes.   Diagrams.    4°* 

Kiver  and  harbor  improvement  convention,  Tuscaloosa.,  Ala.., 
1885.    Memorial  and  proceedings  of  the  Eiver  and  harbor 
improvement  convention. 
Cincinnati:  The  Ohio  Valley  press.,  1886.     (6),  86  pp.    Map. 
8°. 

River    improvement.     Mississippi    Valley    memorial.     New    Or- 
leans, Keokuk  and  Louisville  conventions.     Reports  and 
resolutions.     "  Cheap  transportation  a  public  necessity." 
Dubuque:  Daily  Herald  steam  p7'inting   house.,  1869.    3'2 
pp.    8°. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.     Address  of  President  Eoosevelt  at  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  October  1,  1907. 
Washington:  Govern'ment  printing  office.,  1907.    58  pp.    8°. 

Address  of  President  Roosevelt  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  Octo- 

ber 2,  1907. 
Washingto?i:    Government  printi?ig  o;ffice,  1907.    50  pp.    8°. 

Address  of  President  Roosevelt  to  the  Deep  waterway  con- 

vention at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  October  4,  1907. 
Washington:    Government  printing  office,  1907.     (^),  71  pp. 
8°. 

Russell,  Israel  Cook.    Rivers  of  North  America ;  a  reading  lesson 
for  students  of  geography  and  geology. 


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New  York:  G.  P.  Putnam's  sons;  London:  J.  Murray^  1902. 
{2),(€v,  {4),S27  pp.    Plates.    Majhs.    Tables.    8°.     {The 
science  series,  ed.  hy  J.  M.  Gattell  and  F.  E.  Beddard.) 

St.  Louis.  Chamber  of  commerce.  Proceedings  of  the  St.  Louis 
chamber  of  commerce,  in  relation  to  the  improvement  of 
the  navigation  of  the  Mississippi  Eiver,  and  its  principal 
tributaries  and  the  St.  Louis  harbor.  AVith  a  statement 
submitted  by  A.  B.  Chambers. 
St.  Louis:  Chambers  di  Knapp,  184'2.  4  VP-  including 
tables.    12°. 

Sanborn,  John  Bell.     The  story  of  the  Fox- Wisconsin  rivers  im- 
provement. 
Madison:  State  historical  society  of  Wisconsin,  1900.    186- 
194  VV-    ^°-     {Wisco7isin.    State  historical  society ^  Pro- 
ceedings^ 1899. ) 

Seddon,  James  A.     St.  i^ouis,  a  lake  and  gulf  port.     A  deep  water- 
way joining  the  lake  and  gulf  commerce. 
\n.  p.]  1904.    15  pp.    8°.  _ 

Semple,    Ellen   Churchill.     American   history   and   its   geographic 
conditions. 
Boston  and  New   York:  Houghton,  MiffJ.in  and  company, 
1903.     {8),  466  pp.    Maps.    8°. 

"  The  geography  of  the  inland  waterways,"  pp.  246-279 ;  "  The 
geographical  distribution  of  railroads,"  pp.  367-396.  Com- 
pares canal  and  railway  transportation. 

Sibert,  William  L.     Artificial  waterways  in  the  L^nited  States. 

(In  American  society  of  civil  engineers.  Transactions,  vol. 
54,  part  F,  1905,  pp.  255-284.     New  York,  1905.     8°.) 

Smith,  Joseph  Russell.     The  organization  of  ocean  commerce. 

Philadelphia :  Published  for  the  University,  1905.  viii,  155 
pp.  Folded  map.  Diagrams.  4° -  {Publications  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  Series  in  political  economy 
and  public  law,  no.  17.) 

"Appendix  A.     Bibliographical  note":    pp.    [149]-150. 

"  The  probable  effects  of  the  Panama  canal  upon  ocean  trade 

routes  and  coaling  stations " :    pp.   [79]-101. 
Contents. — Introduction, — pt.  1.    Traffic. — pt,  II.    Routes  and 

shipping. — pt.  III.    Harbors  and  port  facilities. — Conclusion. 


24  LIBRARY   OF   CONGRESS 

Southall,  James  C.     Cheap  transportation.     Delivered  before  the 
American  cheap  transportation  association  in  Richmond, 
Virginia,  December  2nd,  1874. 
Riclimond :   Clemmitt  <£'  Jones^  1875.     39  pp.     8° . 

Taylor,  Robert  S.     The  improvement  of  the  Mississippi  River.    An 
address  delivered  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  January  26,  1884. 
St.  Louis:  R.  P.  Studley  &  co.,  1884.    32  pj).    5°. 

Thomas,  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  D.  A.  Watt.  The  improvement 
of  rivers.  A  treatise  on  the  methods  employed  for  im- 
proving streams  for  open  navigation,  and  for  navigation 
by  means  of  locks  and  dams.  1st  ed. 
Xew  York:  J.  Wiley  and  sons;  London:  Chapman  &  LLall., 
limited.,  1903.  xiv,  356  pp.  Plates.  Map.  Plans.  Dia- 
gram.   F°. 

Tompkins,  P'rank  H.  Riparian  lands  of  the '  Mississippi  River, 
past — present — prospective;  being  a  collection  of  essays 
and  discussions  of  problems  affecting  the  improvement  of 
navigation  of  the  Mississippi  River. 
[Chicago:  A.  L.Swift  &co.\,  1901.  216,225-640  pp.  Illus- 
trations.    Plates.     Portraits.     Maps.     F°. 

Toronto  deep  waterways  convention,  Sept.  17-20^  1894.  [Pro- 
ceedings of  the]  Toronto  deep  waterways  convention. 
September  IT,  18,  19,  and  20,  1894. 

(In  International  deep  waterways  association.  Proceedings 
of  the  first  annual  convention,  Cleveland,  September  24-26, 
1895,    pp.    390-449.      Cleveland,    1895.      8°.) 

Trans-Mississippi  commercial  congress.  9th,  Salt  Lake  City, 
1897.  Official  proceedings  of  the  ninth  session  of  the 
Trans-Mississippi  commercial  congress,  held  at  Assembly 
hall,  Temple  park.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  July  14,  15,  16, 
and  17,  1897  .  .  .  Compiled  by  Secretary  W.  H.  Culmer. 
Salt  Lake  City:  Press  of  Trihune  job  printing  co.,  [1897 f] 
320  pp.  8°. 
Cover-title. 

Tunell,  George  G.  Statistics  of  Lake  commerce.  A  report  made  to 
the  Bureau  of  statistics.  February  3,  1898.  106  pp.  8°. 
(U.  S.  55th  Congress,  2d  session.  House  document  no. 
277.) 

Also  printed  without  document  number. 


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United  States.     JfOth  Congress^  Ist  session.     Senate  report  no.  46, 
pts.  1  and  2.     Report  of  the  Senate  select  committee  on 
interstate  commerce.     (With  appendix.) 
Washington:  Government  printing  o^ce,  1886.    2  vols.    8°. 

Presented  by  Mr.  Cullom. 

Contents. — Part  1 :  The  railroad  system  of  the  United  States — 
Its  evolution  and  extent ;  The  internal  commerce  of  the 
United  States;  The  power  of  Congress  to  regulate  com- 
merce— A  review  of  the  declarations  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  court  on  the  subject ;  The  relations  of  the  railroad 
to  the  community  and  to  the  governmental  authority ;  The 
various  methods  of  railroad  regulation ;  The  course  of  rail- 
road legislation  in  England;  Railroad  legislation  in  the 
United  States ;  Summary  of  the  provisions  of  the  state  stat- 
utes— The  work  of  the  State  commissions ;  The  comparative 
volume  of  state  and  interstate  traffic — Returns  from  leading 
railroads;  Competition  between  waterways  and  railroads — 
Water  routes  the  most  effective  regulators  of  railroad 
charges;  The  necessity  of  national  regulation  on  interstate 
commerce;  The  causes  of  complaint  against  the  railroad 
system ;  Railroad  rates — The  principles  upon  which  they 
should  be  established,  and  the  limitations  within  which  dis- 
crimination may  be  justifiable ;  Publicity  the  best  I'emedy  for 
imjust  discrimination ;  A  national  commission — Its  estab- 
lishment recommended  for  the  enforcement  of  the  legislation 
proposed ;  The  committee's  bill.     Part  2  :  Testimony. 

• 59th  Congress.,  2d  session.     Debates  on  H.  R.  24991,  making 

appropriations  for  the  construction,  repair,  and  preserva- 
tion of  certain  public  works  on  rivers  and  harbors,  and  for 
other  purposes. 

{In  Congressional  record,  50th  Congress,  2d  session,  vol.  41, 
pts.  2-3,  5.     Washington:  1907.     4°.) 

Debates  in  the  House,  pt.  2,  pp.  1998-1990 ;  pt.  3,  pp.  2027,  2030. 
2031-2057,  2093,  2094,  2095-2136,  2164-2172,  2291-2304,  2304- 
2325,  2362-236S,  2369-2371,  2391-2392,  2420-2428,  2428-2433, 
2433-2434,  2439-2473. 

Debated  in  the  Senate,  pt.  3,  pp.  3439-3448. 

Debates  are  also  reported  in  pt.  5,  Appendix,  pp.  8,  15-18,  38- 
44,  44-46,  47^9,  73-75. 

The  subject  of  tlie  improvement  of  the  Mississippi  River  was 
discussed  by  Mr.  Bartholdt,  pt.  3,  pp.  203.3-2040,  2386-2390 : 
Mr  Snapp,  pp.  2041-2045,  2382 ;  Mr.  Coudrey,  pp.  2048-2052, 
2391 ;  Mr.  Rhodes,  pp.  2055-2057 ;  Mr.  Clark,  pp.  2094-2096 ; 
Mr.  Rodenberg,  pp.  2090-2098;  INIr.  Rainey,  pp.  2098-2106; 
Mr.  Crumpacker,  pp.  2106-2108;  Mr.  :Madden.  pp.  2108-2112, 
2381;  Mr.  Shackleford,  pp.  2112-2113;  Mr.  Graff,  pp.  2113- 
2118;  Mr.  Sheppard,  pp.  2118-2125;  Mr.  Candler,  pp.  2127- 
2134;   Mr.  Garrett,  pp.  2134-2136;  Mr.  Hepburn,  pp.  2168- 


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2170;  Mr.  Davidson,  pp.  2295-2301;  Mr.  Humphreys  of  Mis- 
sissippi, pp.  2301-2304,  2384-2396 ;  Mr.  Lloyd,  pp.  2306-2310, 
23S1-23S2;  Mr.  Williams,  pp.  2310-2311;  Mr.  Bankhead,  pp. 
2311;  Mr.  Lorimer,  pp.  2376-2378,  2383;  Mr.  Burton,  pp. 
2379-2381,  2382,  2428-24.33;  Mr.  Smith  of  Illinois,  pp.  2391- 
2392,  and  Appendix,  pp.  73-75;  Mr.  Ellis,  pt.  3,  pp.  2426- 
2428,  2440;  Mr.  Kennedy  of  Nebraska,  pp.  2441;  Senator 
McLaurin,  pt.  4,  pp.  3445-3448 ;  Mr.  Broussard,  Appendix,  pp. 
38-11 ;  Mr.  Bennett,  pp.  41^4 ;  Mr.  Bowers,  iii).  44-40. 

United  States.  Congress.  Senate.  Committee  on  commerce.  Im- 
provement of  the  Mississippi  RiA-er.  Report  of  the  hearing 
held  February  3,  1904,  embocl3^ing  also  report  of  a  conven- 
tion held  October  27-28,  1903,  at  Xew  Orleans.  April  4, 
1904. — Presented  by  Mr,  Berrj^  and  ordered  to  be  printed, 
[Washington^  Government  printing  office.,  1904^.']  116  ff. 
8°.     {58th    Congress.^   2d  session.    Senate   document   no. 

n5.) 

House.     Committee  on  levees  and  improvement  of 


the  Mississippi  River.     Improvement  of  the  Mississippi 

River. 

[Waslvington.,   Government  printing   office.,   187 8. '\     12   pp. 

Frontispiece.     8°.     {4oth  Congress.,  2d  session.     House  of 

representatives.     Report.,  no.  714.) 

Caption  title. 

Report  to  accompany  House  bill.  no.  4318. 

Committee  on  rivers  and  harbors .     Memo- 


randa relating  to  appropriations  and  authorizations  to  be 
included  in  River  and  harbor  bill  as  decided  upon  by  the 
Committee  January  23,  1907.  <Comp,  by  James  H.  Cas- 
sidy,  clerk,  and  Joseph  H.  McGann,  assistant  clerk,  > 
[Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1907.]  8  pp. 
8°. 

Caption  title. 

Board  of  engineers  on  deep  waterways.  Report  of  the 
Board  of  engineers  on  deep  waterways  between  the  Great 
Lakes  and  the  Atlantic  tide  waters  ,  .  ,  Dec.  7,  1900. — 
Referred  to  the  Committee  on  rivers  and  harbors, 

Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1900.  2  vols. 
Hlustrations.  Plates.  4°.  Atlas,  I4I  folded  maps  and 
profiles.  4°.  {U.  S.  56th  Congress,  2d  session.  House 
document  no.  149.) 


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BOOKS    RELATING    TO    DEEP    WATERWAYS  27 

United  States.     Census  office.    11th  census.    Report  on  transporta- 
tion business  in  the  United  States,  at  the  Eleventh  census : 
1890.    Part  2.    Transportation  by  water. 
Washington:  Government  printing   office.,  1891^.     xiii,   {!), 
632  pp.     Folded  maps.    ,^°. 

Contents. — Trausportation  on  the  Atlantic  coast  and  Gulf 
of  Mexico ;  Transix)rtation  on  tlio  Pacific  coast ;  on  the 
Great  Lakes;  on  Lalvo  Chauiplaiu;  on  the  rivers  of  the 
Mississippi  valley;  on  canals  and  canalized  rivers;  By 
express  companies. 

Department  of  commerce  and  labor.     Bureav  of  statistics. 

Monthly    summarj^    of    commerce    and     finance    of  the 
United  States.  < 
Washington:  Government  printing  office.,  1907.    Jf°. 

Contains  statistics  of  the  •'  Internal  commerce  of  the  United 
States,"  including  "  Domestic  commerce  on  the  Great  Lakes," 
and  "  Commercial  movements  on  rivers  and  canals." 

This  forms  a  regular  feature  of  this  publication. 

Engineer  department.    Analytical  and  topical  index  to  the 

reports  of  the  chief  of  engineers  and  the  officers  of  the 

Corps  of  engineers,  United  States  army,  upon  works  and 

surveys  for  river  and  harbor  improvement,  186G[-1892]. 

Washington:  Government  printing  office.,  1881-1895.    3  vols. 

and  folded  map  (8  folded  sheets  in  1  vol.) .     8°. 

Continued  by  the  "Analytical  and  topical  index  to  the  reports 
.  .  .  186G-inOO.     AVashington,  1903." 

Annual  report  of  the  Chief  of  engineers,  United 


States  army,  and  of  subordinate  engineers  upon  the  im 
provement  of  rivers  and  harbors,  and  report  of  the  Missis- 
sippi river  commission,  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  June  30, 
1906. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office^  1906.    2  vols.    8°. 
( U.  S.  o9th  Congress.,  2d  session.    Rouse  document  no.  22.) 

Eeport  upon  survey,  with  plans  and  estimates  of 


cost,  for  a  navigable  waterway  14  feet  deep  from  Lock- 
port,  111.,  by  way  of  Des  Plaines  and  Illinois  rivers,  to  the 
mouth  of  said  Illinois  River,  and  thence  by  way  of  the 
Mississippi  River  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  for  a  navigable 
waterway  of  7  and  8  feet  depth,  respectively,  from  the 
head  of  navigation  of  Illinois  River  at  Lasalle,  111., 
through  said  river  to  OttaAva,  111.,  by  the  Mississippi 
River  commission,  covering  the  section  below  the  mouth 


28  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS 

of  the  Illinois  River,  and  by  a  Board  of  officers  of  the 
corps  of  eiicfineers.  U.  S.  army,  covering  the  section  above 
the  mouth  of  the  Illinois  River. 
Washhiffton :  Goveimment  printing  office,  1905.  5JfIf.  pp. 
Plates.  17  maps.  8°.  {o9th  Congress,  1st  session. 
House  document  263.) 

V  United  States.  Engineer  department.  Reports  upon  transportation 
routes  to  the  seaboard;  being  appendix  cc  of  the  Annual 
report  of  the  chief  of  engineers  for  1875. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1875.  2Jf6  pp. 
including  illustrations.  Tables.  33  plates  {including 
maps,  plans,  diagrams).     8°. 

Rivers  and  harbors.     Letters  from  the  secretary  of 

war  to  the  House  of  representatives.  5Gth  Congress,  2d 
session,  transmitting  reports  of  examinations  and  surveys 
of  the  Engineer  department,  U.  S.  army.  Compilation 
in  3  vols. 

Washington:  1900  and  1901.  90  pamphlets  in  3  vols. 
Folded  plates.  Folded  maps.  Folded  plans.  8°.  {56th 
Congress,  2d  session.    House  documents.) 

Compiled  in  the  Division  of  documents.  Library  of  Congress. 
Each  vol.  has  a  typewritten  title  and  an  "  Index  "  to  the 
entire     compilation     arranged     alphabetically,     by     States. 

Contents. — vol.  1.  Doc.  no.  66-78,  82-94. — vol.  2.  Doc.  no. 
95-104,  111-11.5,  117-130.— vol.  3.  Doc.  no.  131-134,  1.39,  148, 
150-153,  178-180,  201-202,  217-220,  227-228,  234-235,  261- 
264,  274,  283,  207,  318,  355,  378,  450,  506. 

Industrial  commission.     Report  of  the  Industrial  commis- 

sion on  transportation  .  .  ,  including  testimony  ...  re- 
view and  topical  digest  of  evidence,  and  special  reports  on 
railway  legislation  [by  B.  H.  Mever]  and  taxation  [by 
Roswcll  C.  McCrea]. 
Washington:  Government  printing)  office,  1900-1901.  2 
vols.  Map.  Facsimiles.  Tables.  Diagrams.  8°.  {The 
Commission'^s  Reports,  vol.  iv,  ix.) 

Vol.  4.  Lake  transportation,  pp.  100-107  of  the  Digest;  Ocean 
transportation,  pp.  167-175. 

For  the  testimony  on  these  subjects  see  Index  to  testimony, 
page  832. 

Vol.  9.  Freight  rates  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  sea  competi- 
tion, pp.  cxvi-cxx  of  the  Digest;  Water  transportation,  pp. 
clxxiv-clxxxiv ;     Transportation     ou    the    Mississippi    and 


BOOKS  RELATING  TO  DEEP  WATERWAYS  29 

tributary  rivers,  pp.  clxxxiv-clxxxix ;  Labor  connected  witli 
water  transportation,  pp.  cclxv-cclxxii. 
For  testimony  on  these  snbjects  see  Index  to  testimony,  page 
1141. 

United  States.    Treasury  department.    Statement  of  appropriations 

and  expenditures  for  public  buildings,  rivers  and  harbors, 

forts,   arsenals,  armories,  and   other  public   works,   from 

March  4,  1789,  to  June  30,  1882. 

Washington:    Government   printing   office.,   1882.     GO  If.   pp. 

Bureau  of  statistics.     First  annual  report  on  the 

internal  commerce  of  the  United  States,  by  Josej^h  Nimmo, 
jr.     For  the  year  ending  June  30,  187G. 

Washington:   Government  printing  office.,  1877.     215.,   (<?), 

«y,  257  pp.     Folded  maps.     Folded  charts.     8°. 

Issued  as  "Part  second  of  tlie  annual  rejKn-t  of  the  Chief  of 
the  Bureau  of  statistics  on  tlie  conimeree  and  naA'igation 
of  the  United  States."  Contains  reports  of  investigations 
of  economy  of  transport  by  rail ;  The  competitive  forces 
which  exert  a  controlling  influence  over  the  commerce 
between  the  West  and  the  seaboard  with  respect  to  the  com- 
mercial interests  of  Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia,  and 
Baltimore;  The  regulation  of  the  railroads  by  the  state;  The 
regulation  of  rail  rates  through  the  competition  of  water- 
lines;  The  regulation  of  railroads  tlirough  the  competition 
of  one  or  more  railroads  owned  and  controlled  by  the  na- 
tional government  or  by  cities  or  states;  and  The  railroad 
question  in  foreign  countries. 

Annual  report.     December  1,  1879. 

Washington:  Government  printing  office.,  1879.     xi,  (1),  250 

pp.    Folded  map.    8°. 

Contains  reports  on  The  commerce  of  the  cities  of  Saint  Louis, 
Louisville,  and  Cincinnati  with  the  stares  south  of  the  Ohio 
river  and  south  of  the  state  of  Missouri :  Comparative 
growth  of  traffic  on  railroads  and  on  the  Erie  canal  in  the 
commerce  between  the  west  and  the  seaboard ;  and  The  rela- 
tions of  the  railroads  to  the  public  interests. 

Same.     July  1,  1881. 


Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1881.     viii,  239  pp. 
Folded  maps.     8°. 

Contains  reports  on  Railroad  confederations  or  pooling  organi- 
zations; Governmental  regulations  of  railroads:  The  compe- 
tition between  water  lines  and  railroads  and  the  competition 
of  commercial  forces;  The  commercial,  industrial,  and  trans- 
portation interests  of  Cincinnati,  Chicago,  Saint  Louis, 
Louisville,  and  Kansas  City. 


30  LIBEAEY    OF    CONGRESS 

Upper  Mississippi  river  improvement  association.     Proceed- 
ings, 1002,  1004. 
Quincy,  lU.:  Volk,  Jones  (&  McMein  eo.,   [1902-1 00 4. -]     2 
vols.     8°. 

Proceedings.    Convention  held  at  Moline,  Illinois,  October  22 

and  23,  1907. 
[Quincy,  Illinois:  McMein  printing  company,  1907.1     ^^^ 
pp.     8°. 

Remarks  of  the  various  speakers.     Convention  held  at  Mo- 

line, Illinois,  October  22  and  23,  1007. 

[Quiticy, Illinois:  McMein  printing  company,  1907.1     92  pp. 

8°. 

Contains  addresses  by  the  following: 

W.  J.  McGee;  Thomas  Wilkinson;  A.  J.  Hopkins;  Thomas 
Hedge;  George  W.  Prince;  D.  W.  Hamilton;  C.  W.  Hall; 
A.  F.  Dawson;  Alonzo  Brysou;  Our  association,  by  Thomas 
Wilkinson ;  The  outlook,  by  A.  F.  Dawson ;  The  deep  water- 
ways, by  William  Lorimer ;  The  United  States  Senate,  by 
A.  J.  Hopkins ;  The  improvement  of  our  waterways  a  na- 
tional problem,  by  Frank  O.  Lowden ;  The  value  of  water- 
ways, by  J.  W.  Murphy ;  The  future  of  our  waterways  sys- 
tem, by  Lyman  E.  Cooley ;  Waterways  of  the  Pacific  coast,  by 
W.  J.  McGee. 

Ward,  Edward  G.     Internal  commerce. 

(In  U.  S.  Department  of  commerce  and  labor.  Monthly  sum- 
mary of  commerce  and  finance  of  the  United  States,  Novem- 
ber, 1904,  pp.  1663-1710.     Washington,  1904.     4°.) 

Ward,  Elijah.     Speeches  on  commercial,  financial  and  other  sub- 
jects. 
New  York:  G.   IF.   Garleton  &  co.,  1877.    320  pp.     Por- 
trait.   8°. 

Ship-canal  connecting  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  oceans;  its 
value  to  the  commerce  of  the  United  States  and  other 
nations.  House  of  Representatives,  February  15,  1859,  pp. 
11-33. 

A  free  canal  policy:  the  best  guarantee  for  the  preservation 
and  increase  of  our  inland  commerce,  pp.  302-313. 

Whitford,  Xoble  E.  History  of  the  canal  system  of  the  state  of 
New  York  together  with  brief  histories  of  the  canals  of 
the  United  States  and  Canada  .  .  .  Under  the  authority 
of  Henry  A.  Van  Alstyne,  state  engineer  and  surveyor. 
[Alba/iy:  Brandow  jninting  company,  1906.]  2  vols. 
Plates.    Folded  maps.     Tables.     Diagrams.    8°.     {Sup- 


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plement  to  the  Annual  report  of  the  state  engineer  and 
surveyor  of  the  state  of  New  York  for  the  fiscal  year  end- 
ing September  30, 1905.) 

'A,Bibliograpliy  of  New  York  canals  and  navigable  waterways," 
by  Minnie  M,  Beal,  vol.  2,  pp.  1173-13GG. 

"  Biographies  of  engineers :"  vol.  2,  pp.  1145-1172. 

"  Great  canals  of  the  world.  I'arts  of  a  monograph  .  .  .  pub. 
by  the  United  States  .  .  .  Bureau  of  statistics:"  vol.  2,  pp. 
1477-1511. 

Williams,    Charles    G,     Improvement    of    the    Mississippi    river. 
Speech  in  the  House  of  Representatives,   February    18, 

1875. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1895.     9  pp.     8°. 

Windoni,  William.     Cheap  transportation.     Speech  in  the  Senate 
of  the  United  States,  April  24,  1874. 
W ashi7igton :  Government  printing  office,  187 J^..    52  pp.     8°. 

Wooten,   William  Preston.     The  improvement  of  the  Mississippi 
river  between  St.  Louis  and  Cairo. 
Press  of  the  Engineer  school  of  application,  Washington 
Barracks,  Washington,  D.  C.    1902.     {2),  8  pp.    8°. 


DEEP  WATERWAYS:  ARTICLES  IN   PERIODICALS 

1887.  The  great  water  wny  to  connect  Lake  Michigan  with  the 

Mississippi  Eiver,  and  its  influence  on  floods  in  the  Illi- 
nois River.    Thomas  T.  Johnston. 
Association  of  engineering  societies.    Journal.,  vol.  6  {May, 
1887):  182-199. 

1888.  The  waterway  between  Lake  Michigan  and  the  Mississippi 

by  way  of  the  Illinois  river.    Robert  E.  McMath. 

Association  of  engineering  societies.    Journal,  vol.  7  {Aug.., 

1888):  313-329. 

Discussion  before  the  Engineers'  Club  at  St.  Louis  of  the  pro- 
I)osed  waterway  from  a  St.  Louis  i)oint  of  view  in  respect 
to  its  physical,  sanitary,  economical,  and  political  conse- 
quences. 

1889.  Levels  of  the  lakes  as  affected  by  the  proposed  Lake  Michi- 

gan and  Mississippi  waterway.    Read  before  the  Western 
society  of  engineers.  September  5,  1888.     George  Y.  Wis- 
ner,  and  others. 
Association  of  engineering  societies.    Journal.^  vol.  8  {Mar.., 
1889):  123-151^. 

Introductory :  The  proposed  waterway ;  Levels  of  the  lakes, 
by  (ieorge  Y.  Wisner ;  Discussion  by  L.  E.  Cooley,  L.  M. 
Haupt,  etc. 

1892.     Onr  lake  commerce   and   ways  to  the   sea.     Cushman   K. 
Davis. 

Forum,  vol.  12  [Feb.,  1892) :   729-739. 

1892.  The  water  route  from  Chicago  to  the  ocean.     Charles  C. 

Rogers. 
Scribner's  magazine,  vol.  11  {Mar.,  1892) :  270-295. 

1893.  Inland  transportation,     F.  A.  Mahan. 

American  society  of  civil  engineers.     Transactions,  vol.  29 
{July,  1893) :  97-127. 
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33 


1893.  The  limits  attainable  in  improving  the  navigability  of 
rivers  by  means  of  regulation.  H.  Engels.  Translated 
from  the  German  by  Kenneth  Allen. 

American  society  of  civil  engineers.     Transactions,  vol.  £9, 
(July,  1893) :  97-127. 


1895. 


1895. 


1896. 


Opening  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  sea.    Carl  Snyder. 
Harper's  weekly,  vol.  39  {Sept.  21, 1895) :  900-901. 

Ship  canal  projects. 

Public  opinion,  vol.  19  {Nov.  7, 1895) :  580-582. 

"  Press  comment  on  Cleveland  waterways  convention," 


The  present  aspect  of  the  Mississippi  river  navigation  im- 
provement.    J.  B.  Johnson. 

Engineering  news,  vol.  35,  {Feb.  0,  1896) :  94-95. 
Railroad  gazette,  vol.  28  {Feb.  7,  1896) :  87-88. 

1896.  The  Mississippi  river  improvement.     J.  A.  Ockerson. 

Railroad  gazette,  vol.  28  {Feb.  28,  1896) :  139-llfi. 
Engineenng  news,  vol.  35  {Mar.  5, 1896) :  154-155. 

1897.  Joining  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  sea. 

Bradstreefs,  vol.  25  {Jan.  23,  1897) :  55. 

Editorial  on  the  report  of  the  Deep  waterways  commission. 

1897.     The  report  of  the  United  States  deep  waterways  commis- 
sion.      [Extracts.] 
Engineering  news,  vol.  37  {Feb.  11,  1897) :  84-87. 

1897.     The  deep  waterways  commission's  report. 

Engineering  news,  vol.  37  {Feb.  11,  1897)  :  88-90. 

1897.     New  York's  canals.    Campbell  W..  Adams. 

Seaboard,  n.  s.  vol.  9  {Feb.  25,  1897) :  301,  305,  307;  {Mar. 
4,  1897) :  317,  323-325. 

1897.     The  busiest  canal  in  the  world  [Sault  Ste.  Marie].     Wil- 
liam P.  Kibbie. 
Engineering  magazine,  vol.  13  {July,  1897) :  600-610. 

1897.     Inland  navigation  in  the  United  States.     Smith  S.  Leach. 
Engineering  news,  vol.  38  {Aug.  19,  1897) :  117-118. 

"  Extracts  from  a  paper  presented  to  the  Institute  of  Civil 
Engineers.  A  brief  summary  of  the  extent  of  inland  naviga- 
tion in  this  country." 

1897.     New  York's  canals  and  commerce.     Alexander  R.  Smith. 
S-eaboard,  n.  s.  vol.  9  {Aug.  26,  1897) :  721-723. 
32006—08 3 


34  LIBKAEY    OF    CONGRESS 

1897.     From  the  Lakes  to  the  sea:  an  account  of  the  inventions 
and  the  devices  that  have  now  rendered  feasible  a  gi'eat 
ship  canal.     Carl  Snyder. 
American  monthly  review  of  reviews^  vol.  16  {Nov..,  1897)  : 
563-678. 

1897.     Will  a  shiiD  canal  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  Atlantic  pay? 
Enginccrincj  ?iews,  vol.  38  {Nov.  11,  1897) :  316-3W. 

1897.     A  ship  canal  from  the  Lakes  to  the  sea. 

Railroad  gazette,  vol.  29  {Nov.  -5, 1897) :  777-778. 

1897.  The  Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  canal. 
Engineering  news,  vol.  38  {Dec.  23, 1897) :  405-^06. 

Review  of  the  report  of  tlie  provisional  committee  of  the  Pitts- 
burg Chamber  of  commerce. 

1898.  The  decaying  commerce  of  New  York  and  how  to  restore  it. 

Thomas  C.  Clarke. 
Engineering  news,  vol.  39  {Mar.  31, 1898) :  202-203. 

1898.     The  future  of  the  Erie  canal.     Thomas  W.  Symons. 
EngineeAng  record,  vol.  37  {Mar.  19, 1898) :  3JfO-3Jfl. 

1898.  The  Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  ship  canal.     William  Gilbert 

IrAvin. 
Scientific  American,  n.  s.  vol.  79  {Sept.  2Jf,  1898) :  195. 

1899.  Sault  Ste.  Marie  canal.     Some  rare  pictures  of  the  old  state 

lock,  with  a  historical  resume  of  the  development  of  the 
canal. 
Marine  review,  vol.  19  {Feh.  23, 1899) :  12-13. 

1899.     The  economic  relation  of  the  proposed  deep  waterways  to 
the  state  of  New  York.     George  W.  Rafter. 
Technology  quarterly,  vol.  12  {Mar.,  1899) :  1^3-50. 

1899.     Railway  competition  with  canals  in  New  York  [Editorial]. 
Engineering  news,  vol.  1^1  {May  11,  1899) :  300-302. 

1899.  Deep   Avaterways  for  lake  commerce.     F.   W.   Fitzpatrick. 

Self  culture,  vol.  9  {May,  1899) :  257-263. 

1900.  The  NeAv  York  canals.     John  A.  Fairlie. 

Quarterly  journal  of  economics,  vol.  H  {Feh.,  1900) :  212- 
239. 

1900.     New  York's  canal  problem.     A  discussion  of  the  report  of 
the  Advisory  committee.     William  G.  Raymond. 
Railroad  gazette,  vol.  32  {Mar.  2,  1900) :  132-133;  {Mar.  9, 
1900) :  150-151. 


DEEP  waterways:  articles  in  periodicals  35 

1900.  Canals  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  sea.     Thomas  W.  8y- 

mons. 
Forum,  vol.  29  {Apr.,  1000) :  203-216. 

1901.  Shall  a  canal  be  built  from  the  lakes  to  the  sea?     William 

G.  Raymond. 
Railroad  gazette,  vol.  33  {Feb.  15,  1901) :  105-106. 

1901.     American  canal  problems  with  special  reference  to  the  state 
of  New  York.    Robert  E.  Horton. 
Marine  engineering,  vol.  6  {May,  1901) :  188-193. 

1901.  The    Chicago    river.     Thomas    T.    Johnston.     Discussion. 

Isham  Randolph.    Notes  on  the  Chicago  river.    Ernest  L. 
Cooley. 
Western  society  of  engineers.    Journal,  vol.  6  {Aug.,  1901) : 

321^-353. 

1903.     Improvement  of  the  Black  Warrior,  Warrior  and  Tombig- 
bee  rivers  in  Alabama.    R.  G.  McCalla,  and  others. 
American  society  of  civil  engineers.     Proceedings,  vol.  28 
{Apr.,  1902):  337-390;    {Sept.,  1902):  650-669;    {Oct., 
1902) :  700-729;  {Nov.,  1902) :  777-791^. 

1902.  Full  use  of  the  rivers  at  Pittsburg  and  the  removal  of  the 

obstructions  to  such  use.    William  L.  Sibert. 
Engineers  society  of  western  Pennsylvania.     Proceedings, 
vol.  18   {Oct.,  1902) :  3^5-360. 

1903.  Pittsburgh:     her     waterways     and     her     railways.     Antes 

Snyder. 
Engineers  society  of   western  Pennsylvania.     Proceedings, 
vol.  19  {Pel.,  19,  1903) :  H-60. 

1903.     ''Improved    waterway    necessary    for   commercial    outlet." 
W.  B.  Rodgers. 
Engineers  society  of  western  Pennsylvania.     Proceedings, 
vol.  19  {Feb.  19,  1903) :  61-83. 

1903.     Waterway    improvement    on    the    Ohio.     William    Gilbert 
Irwin. 

Scientific  American,  n.  s.  89  {Aug.  15, 1903) :  117-118. 

1903.  Extension  of  federal  jurisdiction  over  state  canals. 

American  law  review,  vol.  37  {Nov.-Dec,  1903) :  911-916. 

1904.  The  west's  southern  outlet  to  the  world. 
Commercial  west,  vol.  6  {Feh.  13, 190 J^) :  18. 


36  LIBKAKY   OF   CONGRESS 

1904.     Canal  enlargement  in  New  York  State.     John  A.  Fairlie. 

Quarterly  journal  of  economics^  vol.  18  {F eh. ,190 If)  :  286- 
292. 

1904.     New  York's  new  canal  system.     Thomas  W.  Symons. 
Marine  i^eview,  vol.  39  {Mar.  10, 1904)  •'  16-17. 

1904.  The  projected  new  barge  canal  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Thomas  W.  Symons. 
American   geographical   society.     Bulletin,   vol.   36    {May, 
1904) :  257-264. 

1905.  The  improvement  of  the  Mississippi  ri^-er  between  St.  Louis 

and  Cairo.     William  P.  "VVooten. 

Engineering  news,  vol.  53  {Mar.  9,  1905) :  247-249. 

1905.     Xew   York's  hundred-million  dollar  canal.     Earle  Hooker 
Eaton. 
Harper's  weekly,  vol.  49  {Mar.  11,  1905) :  350-351. 

1905.     Canada's  canal  system.     M.  M.  Wilner. 

Amencan  monthly  review  of  reviews,  vol.  32  {Aug.,  1905) : 
177-183. 

1905.  The  urgent  need  of  waterway  legislation.     Lewis  M.  Haupt. 
North  American  review,  vol.  181  {Sept.,  1905) :  417-427. 

1906.  The  country's  duty  as  to  waterways  improvements. 
Manufacturers'^  record,  vol.  49  {Feh.  1,  1906) :  57-58. 

1906.     By  canal  from  New  York  to  Oregon.     Alexander  Hume 
Ford. 

PuUic  opinion,  vol.  40  {Feh.  10,  1906) :  165-168. 

1906.     The  Erie  canal  and  freight  rebates.     C.  H.  Quinn. 
World  to-day,  vol.  10  {Feh..  1906) :  164-170. 

1906.     Detroit  river  and  "  Soo  "  canals  traffic. 

Bradstreefs,  vol.  34  {Mar.  17,  1906) :  164. 

1906.     The  traffic  on  America's  inland  seas. 

Dun's  review,  vol.  14  {Mar.  31,  1906) :  II-I4. 

1906.     Waterways  improvement:  the  liberal  part  to  be  played  by 
the  general  government. 
Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  49  {Mar.  8, 1906) :  197. 

1906.     Bonds  for  waterways  improvement.     E.  P.  Wilson. 

Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  49  {Mar.  22,  1906) :  250-251. 


DEEP  waterways:  articles  in  periodicals  37 

1906.     A  barge  canal  between  Pittsburg  and  Lake  Erie.    W.  Frank 
McClure. 
World  to-day,  vol.  10  {Mar.,  1906) :  323-324. 

1906.     The  Cape  Cod  canal.    Fergus  Crane. 

Eclectic  magazine,  vol.  II^G  (Apr.,  1906) :  277-282. 

1906.     The  pre-eminence  of  Pittsburgh  in   transportation    (AVith 
map). 
Iron  age,  vol.  77  .{Apr.  19,  1906) :  1022-1023. 

1906.     Deep-water  outlet  for  east  Texas  traffic.     H.  G.  Spaulding. 
Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  Ifi  {Apr.  19,  1906) :  376-377. 

1906.     To  connect  the  Rio  Grande  and  the  Mississippi.     Proposed 
intercostal  canal.     C.  S.  E.  Holland. 
Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  49  {May  3,  1906):  431-432. 

1906.     The    completing    of    the    Mississippi.     Aubrey    FuUerton.* 
World  to-day,  ^vol.  10   {May,  1906) :  494-498. 

1906.     Georgian  bay  canal. 

Canada,  vol.  2  {June  16,  1906) :  397. 

1906.     River    and    harbor    appropriations.     B.    G.    Hnmplireys. 

Inter-nation,  n.  s.  vol.  1  {June,  1906) :  86-95. 

1906.     The  enlargement   of  the   Erie   canal.     Day   Allen   Willey. 
Scientific  American,  n.  s.  vol.  95  {July  21, 1906) :  4-^-46. 

1906.     The  resuscitation   of  a  river:  how  the  Mississippi   valley 
states  propose  to  regulate  traffic  rates.     Richard  Lloyd 
Jones. 
Collier's,  vol.  37  {Aug.  18,  1906) :  18-19,  26. 

1906.     New  York's  barge  canal.     Day  Allen  Willey. 

Moody''s  magazine,  vol.  2  {Aug.,  1906) :  255-260. 

1906.     Fifty  millions  annuallj^  for  waterways.     Joseph  E.  Rans- 
dell. 
Manufacturers'^  record,  vol.  50  {Oct.  25,  1906):  361. 

1906.     $50,000,000  annually  for  rivers  and  harbors  [National  rivers 
and  harbors  congress,  third  convention]. 
Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  50  {Dec.  13,  1906) :  549-550. 

1906.     Waterway  defenses  of  the  Atlantic  coast.    William  J.  Roe. 

Popular  science  monthly,  vol.  69  {Dec,  1906) :  530-538. 


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38  LIBRARY   OF   COls^GRESS 

1906.  Making  the  Ohio  navigable.     J.  R.  Schmidt. 
Technical  world  magazine^  vol.  6  {Dec.^  1906) :  387-390. 

"  Canalization  of  the  Ohio  river  from  Pittsburg  to  Cairo." 

1907.  Two  history-making  conventions:  1.  The  Lakes-to-the-Gulf 

deep  waterways  association.     Charles  M.  Harvey.     2.  The 
Trans-Mississippi  commercial  congress.     W.  E.  Williams. 
World  to-day,  vol  U  {Jan.,  1907) :  39-U' 

1907.     Waterways  in  demand:  Progress  of  Erie  canal  work:  pros- 
pective undertakings. 
American  monthly  revieic  of  reviews,  vol.  35  {Feb.,  1907) : 
Ilfl-U2. 

1907.     Waterways  development.    Joseph  E.  Ransdell. 

Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  51  {Feb.  28, 1907) :  181. 

1907.     Onr  great  river:  what  it  is  and  may  be  for  commerce,  agri- 
culture, and  sanitation:  the  largest  inland  project  of  our 
time.     W.  J.  McGee. 
World's  work,  vol.  13  {Feb.,  1907) :  8576-8581 

1907.     A  ship  canal  across  the  United  States. 

World's  work  {London)  vol.  9  {Feb.,  1907):  23Jf. 

1907.     Waterways  and  railroads  in  the  United   States:  on  river 
and  harbor  improvements:   Ransdell   on   our  waterways 
progress :  rivers  and  harbors :  canals. 
Manufacturer,  vol.  20  {Mar.  U  1907) :  7.  9-10,  11^-15. 

1907.     Protected  waterway  from   Boston  to  the  Gulf.     John  H. 
Small. 
Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  51  {Mar.  21,  1907) :  271-272. 

1907.     The  transportation  crisis.     Lewis  M.  Haupt. 

Manufacturers'  record,  vol  51  {Mar.  28-May  30,  1907)  : 
303-30^,  337-339,  369-370,  }^06-.W7,  ^33-Jf3^,  ^517-518,  5.^5- 
51^6,  587-589,  621-622. 

1907.     Proposed  ship  canal  from  Xew  Orleans  to  Chicago. 
World's  work  {London)  vol.  9  {Mar.,  1907) :  ^7. 

1907.     Illinois'  great  waterway:  interior  waterways:  the  new  com- 
mission. 
American  monthly  review  of  revieivs,  vol.  35  {Apr.,  1907) : 
395-397. 

1907.     Travaux  d'amelioration  du  Missouri.    F.  Marchais. 

La  Genie  civil,  vol.  50  {Apr.  6,  1907) :  385-388. 


DEEP    WATERWAYS:    ARTICLES   IN    PERIODICALS  39 

1907.     The  St.  Lawrence  route:  the  St.  Lawrence  ship  canal.    J.  S. 
M'Lean. 

Railway  age,  vol.  1^3  (Apr.  6,  1907) :  563-565. 

1907.     To  unite  a  hundred  rivers.     Frank  A.  Briggs. 

Technical  world  magazine,  vol.  7  (Apr.,  1907):  121-128. 

Regards    the   project   to    connect   the   Rio    Grande   with    the 

Mississippi. 

1907.     From  New  York  to  Boston  by  canal.    Hugh  C.  Weir. 
World  to-day,  vol.  12  {Apr.,  1907):  370-37 If. 

1907.     Commerce  on  the  Great  Lakes.    J.  Oliver  Curwood. 

World's  toork,  vol.  13  {April,  1907) :  8785-8790. 
Treats  of  the  freight  traffic  with  some  statistics. 

1907.     Canal  project  for  the  central  south.    C.  P.  Goodyear. 

Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  51  {May  30,  1907) :  620-621. 

1907.     Report  on  Georgian  bay  canal. 

Railway  world,  vol.  51  {May  17,  1907) :  4O8. 

1907.     Our  inland  waterways. 

American  monthly  review  of  reviews,  vol.  35  {June,  1907) : 
61^8. 

1907.     Canada's  big  canal  project:  prospects  of  the  Georgian  bay 
ship  waterway. 
Canada,  vol.  6  {June  15,  1907) :  325-326. 

1907.     The  Atlantic  and  great  western  canal.    Lewis  M.  Haupt. 
Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  51  {June  6, 1907) :  651^.-655. 

1907.     Linking  Lake  Michigan  to  the  Gulf.     William  Trowbridge 
Larned. 
Yan  Norden  magazine,  vol.  2  {June,  1907) :  66-73. 

1907.     The  waterways  of  America.    Charles  D.  Stewart. 

Century  magazine,  vol.  7^  {Aug.,  1907)  528-542. 

1907.     Wholesale  canal  building.    George  Ethelbert  AValsh. 
Moody''s  magazine,  vol.  4  {Aug.,  1907) :  219-225. 

1907.     Economy  of  water  transportation.     Franklin  Wood. 
Moody's  magazine,  vol.  4  {Aug.,  1907) :  225-232. 

1907.     Recent  legislation  on  the  Mississippi  river.      Robert  Marshall 
,  Brown. 
Popular  science  monthly,  vol.  71  {Aug.,  1907) :  131-138. 


40  LIBRARY   OF   CONGRESS 

1907.     The  Lakes-to-gulf  waterway:  an  undertaking  to  float  the 
conunerce  of  the  West  to  the  sea.    Will  Payne. 
Saturday  evening  post,  vol.  180  {Sept.  7, 1907) :  S-J^,  2Jf,  25. 

1907.     Commercial   importance    of   the   sanitary   canal    and    gulf 
waterway.    Hoyt  King. 
World  to-day,  vol  13  {Sept.,  1907) :  897-901. 

1907.     The  President's  Mississippi   journey.     William  Flewellyn 
Saunders. 
American  monthly  review  of  reviews,  vol  36  {Oct.,  1907): 
^56-JfGO. 

1907.     The  revival  of  internal  waterways  in  the  United   States. 
George  Ethelbert  Walsh. 

Cassier's  magazine,  vol.  32  {Oct.,  1907) :  1^8-50 J^. 

1907.     The  President  sees  the  Mississippi :  learning  at  first  hand  of 
the  dwindling  traffic  of  our  inland  waterways.     Frederick 
Palmer. 
Collier's,  vol.  JtO  {Oct.  5,  1907) :  13-U. 

1907.     An  address  upon  rivers  and  harbors:  more  or  less  academic 
and  technical.    Theodore  E.  Burton, 
Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5, 1907) :  8. 

1907.     Commercial     advantages     deep     waterways     to     Missouri. 
Joseph  W.  Folk. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5, 1907) :  8. 

1907.     The  complementary  nature  of  water  transportation  as  allied 
to  transportation  by  rail.    J.  T.  Harahan. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907)  :  8-9. 

Railway  age,  vol.  U  {Oct.  11,  1907) :  502-503. 

Railway  world,  vol.  51  {Oct.  11, 1907) :  855-856. 

"Address  before  the  Deep  waterway  convention  at  Memphis, 
Oct.  4." 

1907.     Deep  waterways.    A.  B.  Cummins. 

Comniercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907):  10. 

1907.     Mississippi  and  deep  waterway.    E.  F.  Noel. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907):  10. 

1907.     The  necessity  of  united  action  by  the  friends  of  river  im- 
provement.   Joseph  E.  Ransdell. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907):  2. 

1907.     President  Kavanaugh  delivers  the  annual  address:  Lakes- 
to-the-gulf  deep  waterways  convention. 
Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907) :  2. 


DEEP   WATERWAYS:   ARTICLES   IN    PERIODICALS  41 

1907.     President's  address. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  5,  1907) :  J^. 

1907.     Arkansas  and  the  deep  waterway.    Xenophen  O.  Pindall. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memp/m) ,  vol.  79  {Oct.  G,  1907) :  2-3. 

1907.     Benefit  of  the   deep   waterways  to  the   Northwest.     John 
Burke. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  0,  1907) :  3. 

1907.     Florida's  interest  in  the  deep  waterway.    Napoleon  B.  Bro- 
ward. 
Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  6, 1007) :  3-4, 8. 

1907.     The  importance  to  Wyoming  of  river  navigation.     Bryant 
D.  Brooks. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  0,  1907) :  8, 10. 

1907.     Inland  waterways.     Coe  I.  Crawford. 

Commercial  appeal  {Memphis),  vol.  79  {Oct.  6, 1907) :  10. 

"  Relation  of  South  Dakota  to  transportation  up  the  Missouri 
and  Mississippi." 

1907.     Ohio  and  Mississippi  as  transportation  factors.     John  L. 
Vance. 
Commercial  appeal  {Memphis) ,  vol.  79  {Oct.  6,  1907) :  2. 

1907.     Down  the  Mississippi.     William  A.  Rodenberg. 

Independent,  vol.  63  {Oct.  3,  1907) :  783-788. 

1907.     Water-power:  by-product     of     navigation     improvement. 
Charles  H.  Baker. 

Manufacturers'^  record,  vol.  52  {Oct.  10,  1907) :  1^7-48. 

"  Illustrated  in  the  plans  for  the  development  of  the  Tennessee 
river-Muscle  shoals  situation." 

1907.     Mississippi  valley  waterways  improvement.    Albert  Phenis. 
Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  52  {Oct.  10, 1907) :  49-50. 

1907.     The  one  means  for  improving  waterways.    John  Glass. 

Manufacturers^  record,  vol.  52  {Oct.  17,  1907) :  40-50. 

1907.     Eoosevelt's  speech:  indorses  deep  waterways. 

Memphis  news  scimitar,  vol.  28  {Oct.  4-,  1907) :  8. 

1907.     Fourteen  feet  through  the  Valley.    John  Sharp  AVilliams. 
Memphis  news  scimitar,  vol.  28  {Oct.  6,  1907) :  12-13. 

1907.     Railroad  vs.  water  transportation.    Colyer  Meriwether. 
Moody'' s  magazine,  vol.  4  {Oct.,  1907) :  4k^-h¥)- 


42  LIBEAEY   OF    CONGKESS 

1907.     Biiiklino;  a  great  industrial  waterway   [Cape  Cod  canal]. 
Reed  Carradine. 

American  industries^  vol.  6  {Nov.  15.,  1907) :  9-12. 

1907.     The  Atlantic  inland  waterway.    George  Byrne. 

Manufacturers^  record,  vol.  52  {Nov.  llf.,  1907)  :  1^8. 

1907.     For  a  broad  policy  in  waterways  improvement.    Joseph  E. 
Ransdell. 
Manufacturers'  record,  vol.  52  {Nov.  28,  1907) :  1^7. 

1907.     The  Cape  Cod  canal.    Reed  Carradine. 

Van  Norden  magazine,  vol.  2  {Nov.,  1907) :  113-128. 

1907.     With  Roosevelt  on  the  Mississippi.    Wilson  H.  Cotton. 
World  to-day,  vol.  13  {Nov.,  1907) :  lOSIf-lOSS. 

1907.     The  rediscovery  of  the  Missouri.    Walter  Williams. 
World  to-day,  vol.  13  {Nov.,  1907) :  1125-1128. 

1907.     The  future  of  our  navigable  waters.    John  L.  Mathews. 
Atlantic  monthly,  vol.  100  {Dec,  1907) :  721-728. 

1907.     $500,000,000  for  river  and  harbor  improvement. 

Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  52  {Dec.  5,  1907) :  59-61. 

1907.     National  rivers  and  harbors  congress. 

Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  52  {Dec.  12,  1907)  :  1^5-1^6. 

1907.  Circumventing  Cape  Hatteras:  an  inland  waterway  from 

Chesapeake  Bay  to  Beaufort  Inlet,  N.  C,  which  will  bene- 
fit the  entire  country.    C.  H.  Claudy. 
World  to-day,  vol.  13  {Dec,  1907) :  121^8-1251^. 

1908.  The  new  canal  and  old  Cape  Cod.    Reed  Carradine. 
Harper's  Weekly,  vol.  52  {Jan.  11,  1908) :  16-17. 

1908.     Inland  waterways.    Herbert  Quick. 

Reader,  vol.  11  {.Jan.,  1908)  :  119-131^. 

1908.     The  romance  of  the  Great  lakes.    J.  O.  Curwood. 
Reader,  vol.  11  {Jan.,  1908) :  167-182. 

1908.     To  link  the  Lakes  with  the  sea.    H.  G.  Hunting. 

Technical  world  magazine,  vol.  8  {Jan.,  1908) :  J^67-Ji75. 

1908.     Developing  the  nation's  waterways.    C.  W.  Asbury. 
American  industries,  vol.  7  {Feb.  15, 1908) :  lJf.-15. 


DEEP   WATERWAYS:   ARTICLES  IN   PERIODICALS  43 

1908.     A  short  cut  to  Boston  [Cape  Cod  canal].    Charles  Culver 
Johnson. 
Appleton^s  magazine,  vol.  11  {Feb.,  1908) :  182-189. 

1908.     Some  of  the  engineering  problems  involved  in  the  construc- 
tion of  a  deep  waterway  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico.     J.  A.  Ockerson. 
Association  of  engineering  societies.    Journal,  vol.  Jfi  {Feb., 
1908) :  110-127. 

1908.     The  demand  for  waterway  development. 

Chautauquan,  vol.  Jf9  {Feb.,  1908) :  306-307. 

1908.     From  Lakes  to  Gulf.    Charles  Jewett  Swift. 

Manufacturers''  record,  vol.  53  {Feb.  13, 1908) :  1^7. 

"  A    suggested    route    by    the    Tennessee   and    Chattahoochee 
rivers." 

1908.     The  romance  of  the  Great  Lakes.    2.  What  the  ships  carry. 
J.  O.  Curwood. 

Reader,  vol.  11  {Feb.,  1908) :  233-2^5. 

1908.     Inland  waterways.    2.  Bringing  the  sea  to  the  farms.    Her- 
bert Quick. 
Reader,  vol.  11  {Feb.,  1908) :  263-277. 

1908.     Rebuilding  a  great  canal  [Erie].    Lindon  Bates,  jr. 

Technical  world  magazine,  ool.  8  {Feb.,  1908) :  622-630. 

1908.     Handling    the    rivers    of   the    nation.      AVilliam    Atherton 
Dupuy. 
World's  work,  vol.  15  {Mar.,  1908) :  10011-10016. 

1908.     Inland   waterways.     3.  The   railways   and    the   waterways. 
Herbert  Quick. 
Putnarri's  monthly  and  the  Reader,  vol.  S  {Mar.,  1908) :  703- 
716. 

1908.     Our  inland  waterways.    W.  J.  McGee. 

Popular  science  monthly,  col.  72  {Apr.,  1908) :  289-303. 

1908.     Vast  wealth  for  the  state.    Charles  S.  Deneen. 

Technical  world  magazine,  vol.  9  {Apr.,  1908) :  121-129. 


UNITED  STATES   DOCUMENTS  ON    DEEP   WATERWAYS 

Note. — The  heavy  face  numerals  at  the  end  of  the  titles  are  the  serial  num- 
bers used  in  the  check  list  of  documents,  published  by  the  Superintendent  of 
documents. 

1808.  Roads  and  canals.  Report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  treasury 
[Albert  Gallatin]  communicated  to  the  Senate,  April  6, 

1808. 

10th  Congress^  1st  session. 

{In  American  state  papers:  Miscellaneous,  vol.  1,  pp.  724-921.) 

Importance  of  Intei'nal  improvements.  Canals  along  the  At- 
lantic coast,  between  the  Atlantic  and  western  waters,  be- 
tween the  Atlantic  and  the  Great  Lakes ;  Reports  on  canals. 
Letters  of  B.  H.  Latrobe  and  Robert  Fulton. 

Reprinted  Jan.  15,  1816. 

14th  Congress,  1st  session.     Senate  report  no.  19. 

1816.  Report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  treasury  [Albert  Gallatin] 
on  the  subject  of  Public  roads  and  canals.  [Apr.  12, 1808] 
January  15,  1816.     Printed  by  order  of  the  Senate. 

Washington:  Printed  hy  William  A.  Davis,  1816.     129  pp. 

8°. 
IJfth  Congress,  1st  session.     Senate  report  no.  19. 

1819.     Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting  topograph- 
ical reports,  made  with  a  view  to  ascertain  the  practicabil- 
ity of  uniting  the  waters  of  Illinois  river,  with  those  of 
Lake  Michigan.     Dec.  28,  1819.     10  pp.     8°. 
Kith  Congress,  1st  session.    Executive  document  no.  17.       32 

1825.     Canal   from  Lake  Pontchartrain  to  the  river  Mississippi. 
Report  from  the  Select  committee  on  roads  and  canals. 
Feb.  4,  1825.     3  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress,  2d  session.    Senate  document  no.  26.  109 

1825.     A  report  of  the  examination  which  has  been  made  by  the 
Board  of  engineers,  with  a  view  to  internal  improvement, 
etc.     Feb.  14,  1825.     Ill  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress,  2d  session.    Senate  document  no.  32.  109 

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1825.     Same. 

18th  Congress^  2d  session.    House  document  no.  83.  117 

Report  of  S.  Bernard  and  J.  G.  Totten  on  the  several  canal 
routes  examined  in  1824.  Cliesaiteake  and  Oliio;  Ohio  and 
Erie;  Ohio  and  Sehuyllvill ;  Delaware  and  Raritan ;  Barn- 
stable and  Hyannis  harbor;  Buzzard's  Bay  and  Barnstable; 
Taunton  and  Weymouth,  pp.  13-69. 

1825.     Memorial  of  the  le^jislature  of  the  state  of  Oliio,  in  relation 
to  the  connection  of  Lake  Erie,  with  the  Ohio  river,  by 
means  of  canal  navigation.     Feb.  22,  1825.     6  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress^  2d  session.    Senate  document  no.  36.  110 

1825.     Memorial  and  resolution  of  the  Legislature  of  Louisiana, 
upon  the  subject  of  a  canal  from  Lake  Pontchartrain  to 
the  river  Mississippi.     Jan.  21,  1825.     4  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress.)  2d  session.     Executive  document  no.  57.     115 

1825.     Annual  report  of  the  president  and  directors  of  the  Wash- 
ington canal  company.     Feb.  24,  1825.     2  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress.)  2d  session.    Executive  papers  no.  102.         118 

1825.  Report  of  the  Select  committee  to  whom  was  referred,  on 
the  3d  ultimo,  a  memorial  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
Illinois,  upon  the  subject  of  a  canal  communication  be- 
tween the  Illinois  river  and  Lake  Michigan,  accompanied 
with  a  bill  to  aid  the  state  of  Illinois  in  the  accomplish- 
ment of  the  same.  February  1,  1825.  6  pp.  8°. 
18th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  53.  122 

1825.  Report  of  the  select  committee  on  the  subject  of  aiding  the 

state  of  Indiana  in  opening  a  canal  to  connect  the  waters 
of  the  Wabash  river,  with  those  of  Lake  Erie,  accom- 
panied by  a  bill  to  accomplish  that  object.     Feb.  21,  1825. 
4  pp.     8°. 
18th  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  78.  122 

1826.  Report  from  the  select  Committee  on  roads  and  canals  on 

the  survey  of  a  route  for  a  canal  between  the  Atlantic  and 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico.    Jan.  19,  1826.    14  pp.    8°. 
19th  Congress.,  1st  session.    Senate  document  no.  21.  126 

Letter  from  Joseph  M.  White,  pp.  2-13. 

1826.     Memorial  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  state  of  Illinois, 

on  the  construction  of  a  canal,  to  unite  the  waters  of  Lake 

Michigan    with   the    Illinois   river.      February   28.    1820. 

'4  pp.     8°. 

19th  Congress.,  1st  session.    Senate  document  no.  49.  126 


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1826.  Report  from  the  Select  committee  on  roads  and  canals,  on 
the  subject  of  providing  for  the  surveys  of  canal  routes, 
in  the  state  of  Indiana,  and  of  various  routes  for  roads 
and    canals,    in    the    state    of    Maine.     April    19,    1826, 

2  pp.     8°. 

19th  Congress^  1st  session.    Senate  document  no.  81.  128 

1826.     Report  of  the  engineer  employed  in  exploring  the  country, 
and  running  levels  between  the  Deep  creek  and  Castle- 
man's  summits,  on  the  contemplated  route  of  the  Chesa- 
peake and  Ohio  canal.     Apr.  29,  1826.     12  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress.)  1st  session.    House  document  no.  169.        140 

1826.     Canal — Lake  Michigan  to  Illinois  river.     Report  from  the 
Committee   on     roads    and    canals.     March    30,    1826.     5 
pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress.)  1st  session.    House  report  no.  llf'T.  142 

1826.     Survey-canal   route — Olean   point   to   Erie   canal.  Report 

from  the  Select  committee  on  roads  and  canals.  April  4, 
1826.     4  pp.     8°. 

19th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  151.  142 

1826.     Survey  of  canal  routes — Mississippi  and  Louisiana.    Report 
from  the  Committee  on  roads  and  canals.     Apr.  14,  1826. 
4  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress.)  1st  session.    House  report  no.  162.  142 

1826.     Canal  around  the  Muscle  shoals.    Report  from  the  Commit- 
tee on  roads  and  canals.     May  15,  1826.     2  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress.)  1st  session.    House  report  no.  215.  142 

1826.     Extension  of  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal,  from  Pittsburgh 
to  Lake  Erie.     Report  from  the  Committee  on  roads  and 
canals.     May  16,  1826.     3  pp.     8°. 
10th  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  216.  142 

1826.     Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal.     Report  from  the  Committee 
on  roads  and  canals.     May  22,  1826.     122  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  228.  142 

1826.  Canal  to  connect  lakes  Champlain  and  Ontario.  Report 
from  the  Committee  on  roads  and  canals.     May  22,  1826. 

3  pp.     8°. 

19th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  230.  142 


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1827.     Memorial  of  the  general  assembl}^  of  the  state  of  Illinois, 

asking  for  a  grant  of  land  to  aid  said  state  in  opening  a, 

canal  to  connect  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  with  the 

Illinois  river.     Feb.  7,  1827.     4  pp.     8°. 

19th  Congress^  2d  session.    Senate  document  no.  J^6.        145 

1827.     Statement  in  relation  to  a  canal  from  Lake  Pontchartrain 
to  the  Mississippi.     Mar.  3,  1827.     18  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  133.  154 

1827.  Inland  channel  from  the  Bay  of  St.  Mary's  to  St.  John's 

river.     Report  from  the  Committee  on  roads  and  canals. 
Feb.  3,  1827.     11  pp.     8°. 
19th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  70.  159 

1828.  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal.    Estimate  of  the  cost  of  making 

a  canal  from  Cumberland  to  Georgetown.     Mar.  10,  1828. 
99  pp.     8°. 
20th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  192.  173 

1828.     A  report,  map,  and  estimate  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio 
canal  to  Alexandria,  in  the  District  of  Columbia.     Apr. 
21,  1828.     14  pp.     8°. 
20th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  25^.         174 

1828.     Memorial  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal  company.    Dec 

5,  1828.     32  pp.     8°. 
20th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  12.  184 

1828.  Communication  from  the  chief  engineer,  on  the  subject  of  a 

communication    between    the    HiAvassee    and    Conesauga 
rivers,  etc.     Dec.  11,  1828.     10  pp.     8°. 
20th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  15.  184 

1829.  Memorial  of  Amos  Binney,  et  al.  on  the  Chesapeake  and 

Ohio  canal     Feb.  9,  1829.     24  pp.     8°. 
20th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  116.  186 

1830.  Letter  from  the  president  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal 

company,  with  proceedings  of  a  meeting  of  that  company, 
to  the  Hon.  E.  F.  Chambers,  Chairman  of  the  Conunittee 
on  the  District  of  Columbia.     May  24, 1830.    .3  pp.     8°. 
21st  Congress,  1st  session.    Senate  document  no.  144-        193 

1830.     Two   acts   of   the   legislature   of   Virginia,   respecting   the 
Chespeake  and  Ohio  canal  company.     Mar.  9,  1830.     4  pp. 
8°. 
21st  Congress,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  94.  198 


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1830.     Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal  west  of  the  Alleghany.    Report 
from  the  Committee  on  internal  improvements.     Mar,  8, 

1830.  2  pp.     8°. 

21st  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  280.  200 

1830.     Canal — Lake  Michigan  to  Illinois  river.     Illinois  to  relin- 
quish land  and  issued  scrip.    Report  from  the  Committee 
on  the  public  lands.     April  22,  1830.     3  pp.     8°. 
21st  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  377.  201 

1830.  Memorial  of  the  president  and  directors  of  the  Chesapeake 

and  Ohio  canal  companj^     May  24,  1830.     10  pp.     8°. 
21st  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  31.  210 

1831.  Alexandria  canal.    Report  from  the  Committee  on  internal 

improvements  recommending   a   subscription   from   Con- 
gress to  aid  in  the  construction  of  the  said  canal.    Jan.  31, 

1831.  22  pp.    8°. 

21st  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  71.  210 

1832.  Report  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  relative  to  an  examina- 

tion Avith  a  view  of  connecting  Lake  Michigan  with  the 
AYabash  river,  in  Indiana.    May  14,  1832.    19  pp.    8°. 
22d  Congress,  1st  session.    Senate  document  no.  IJ^S.  214 

1832.     Canal — Lake  Michigan  and  Illinois  river.     Letter  from  the 

Secretary  of  war,  transmitting  a  report  of  the  route  of  a 

canal  to  connect  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  with  those 

of  Illinois  river.    May  24,  1832.    7  pp.    8°. 

22d.  Congress.^  1st  session.    House  document  no.  2Jf.5.  221 

1832.     Alexandria  canal  company.    Report  from  the  Committee  on 

internal  improvements  recommending  subscription,  on  the 

part  of  the  United  States,  to  the  stock  of  the  said  canal. 

Mar.  30,  1832.    34  pp.    8°. 

22d  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  Jf.19.  226 

1832.     Canal — Lake  Michigan  and  Illinois  river.    Report  from  the 
Committee  on  internal  improvements.    April  13,  1832.    20 
pp.     8°. 
22d  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  ^1^6.  226 

1834.  Ship  canal  between  Lake  Erie  and  Lake  Ontario.  Petition 
from  inhabitants  of  New  York,  asking  for  an  appropria- 
tion to  survey  a  route  for  a  ship  canal  from  Lake  Erie  to 
Lake  Ontario,  and  also  to  construct  said  canal.  January 
6,  1834.  5  pp.  8°. 
23d  Congress,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  3^.  254 


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1834.     Canal — Michigan  to  Illinois  river.     Report  from  the  Com- 
mittee   on    roads    and    canals.     June   25,  1834.     21  pp. 
Folded  map.     8°. 
23d  Congress,  1st  session.     House  report  no.  546.  263 

1836.  Canal — Lake  Erie  to  Lake  Ontario.    Letter  from  the  Secre- 

tary of  war,  in   relation  to  the  construction  of  a   canal 
from  Lake  Erie  to  Lake  Ontario.     April  14,  1836.     75 
pp.     Folded  maps.     8°. 
^21^th  Congress.,  1st  sessio7i.    House  document  no.  214-        290 

1837.  Niagara  ship  canal.     Report  from  the  Committee  on  roads 

and  canals.    February  14,  1837.    40  pp.    8°. 
£4fh  Congress,  '2d  session.    House  report  no.  201.  305 

On  the  "  i-eport  of  the  Secretary  of  war  of  the  result  of  the 
survey  of  the  several  routes  of  a  ship  canal  round  the  falls 
of  Niagara  to  connect  the  navigable  waters  of  the  Lakes 
Erie  and  Ontario." 

1838.  Ship  canal  around  the  Falls  of  Niagara.     Report  from  the 

Committee  on  roads  and  canals.     January  25,  1838.     35 
pp.     8°. 
25th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  4^3.  334 

1843.     Communications  and  documents  on  the  subject  of  a  grant  of 

land  to  the  state  of  Illinois,  to  aid  in  the  completion  of 

the  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal.     January  3,  1843.     14 

pp.    8°. 

27th  Congress,  3d  session.    Senate  doeuTnent  no.  26.  -        414 

1845.  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal.  Report  from  the  Committee 
on  public  lands,  to  whom  Avas  referred  "A  bill  granting 
an  additional  quantity  of  land  to  the  State  of  Illinois,  to 
aid  in  the  completion  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal." 
January  17,  1845.  16  pp.  8°. 
28th  Congress,  2d  session.    Hotise  report  no.  4S.  468 

1856.  Canal  to  connect  the  Mississippi  with  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 
Resolutions  of  the  Legislature  of  ]\rississippi.  relative  to 
a  canal  to  connect  the  waters  of  the  Mississippi  river  with 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  April  2,  1856.  2  pp.  8°. 
34th  Congtxss,  1st  session.  House  miscellaneous  document 
no.  79.  866 

1858.     Niagara  ship  canal.    Report  from  the  majority  of  the  com- 
mittee to  whom  was  referred  numerous  memorials  and 
resolutions,  asking  for  a  grant  of  lands  to  aid  in  the  con- 
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striiction  of  a  ship  canal  around  the  falls  of  Niagara. 
May  11,  1858.    12  pp.    8°. 
35th  Congress,  1st  session.    House  veyort  no.  374-  966 

1862.  Ship  canal  to  connect  Mississippi  river  and  Lake  Michigan. 

Eeport  from  the   Committee  on  military   affairs.     Feb- 
ruary 20,  1862.    13  pp.    8°. 
37 fh  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  37.     .  1144 

1863.  Letter  of  the  Acting  secretary  of  the  interior,  to  Honorable 

H.  M.  Rice,  in  relation  to  uniting  the  navigable  waters  of 
the  Mississippi  river  with  the  Red  river  of  the  North  by 
slack-water  and  canal  navigation.  January  5,  1863.  2 
pp.  8°. 
37th  Congress,  3d  session.  Senate  miscellaneous  document 
no.  8.  1150 

1863.  Niagara  ship  canal.  Report  from  the  Select  committee,  to 
whom  were  referred  all  the  papers  and  memorials  in  re- 
lation to  the  construction  of  a  ship  canal  around  the  Falls 
of  Niagara,  upon  the  American  side,  to  connect  the  navi- 
gable Avaters  of  Lakes  Erie  and  Ontario.  March  3,  1863. 
18  pp.  8°. 
37th  Congress,  3d  session.    House  report  no.  53.  1173 

1863.     Niagara  ship  canal.    Report  from  the  Committee  on  naval 

affairs,  to  whom  was  referred  the  memorial  of  Horace  H. 

Day,  for  the  construction  of  a  ship  canal  around  the  Falls 

of  Niagara.     March  3,   1863.     2  pp.     8°. 

37th  Congress,  3d  session.    House  report  no.  51^.  1173 

1868.  Niagara  ship  canal.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war, 
transmitting  report  by  Colonel  Blunt,  on  the  surveys  for 
a  ship  canal  to  connect  Lakes  Erie  and  Ontario.  March 
3,  1868.  19  pp.  8°. 
Ifith  Congress,  2d  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
197.  1341 

1870.  Water  communication  between  the  Atlantic  and  Mississippi. 
Letter  from  the  Governor  of  the  state  of  Iowa,  transmit- 
ting a  memorial  of  the  state  of  Iowa  in  relation  to  water 
communication  between  the  Atlantic  and  Mississippi. 
May  14,  18T0.  19  pp.  8°. 
Ji-lst  Congress,  2d  session.  House  miscellaneous  document 
no.  136.  1433 


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1873. 


1873. 


1874. 


1874. 


1874. 


1874. 


1874. 


Niagara  ship-canal.  Memorial  and  report  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Detroit  commercial  convention,  held  at 
the  city  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  on  the  13th  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1871,  in  relation  to  the  Niagara  Falls  ship-canal. 
December  18,  1872.     73  pp.     8°. 


42d  Congress^  3d  session. 

22. 


House  miscellaneous  document  no. 

1571 


Ship-canal.  Report  from  the  Committee  on  commerce  on 
sundry  bills  for  the  construction  and  improvement  of 
interior  lines  of  navigation.  February  13,  1873.  28 
pp.     8°. 

42d  Congress.)  3d  session.    House  report  no.  76.  1576 

Illinois  and  Michigan  canal.  Memorial  of  the  legislature  of 
Illinois,  in  relation  to  the  extension  of  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  canal  from  the  Illinois  to  the  Mississippi  river. 
Feb.  20,  1874.    2  pp.    8°. 

Ji3d  Congress.)  1st  session.  House  miscellaneous  document 
no.  lJf5.  1619 

Canal  connecting  the  Mississippi  river  with  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.  Letter  from  the  Secretar}^  of  war,  in  relation  to 
a  ship-canal  to  connect  the  Mississippi  river  with  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico.    February  4,  1874.    92  pp.    8°. 

JfSd  Congress.,  1st  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
113.  1607 

Cheap  transportation.  Memorial  of  American  cheap  trans- 
portation association.    Feb.  21,  1874.     16  pp.    8°. 

JjSd  Congress.,  1st  session.     House  miscellaneous  document 

no.U7.  1619 

"Argument  and  memorial  in  favor  of  a  national  system  of 
transportation  by  water  as  the  cheapest  and  best  means  of 
supplying  the  demands  of  the  people,"  by  B.  W.  Frobel. 

Canal  connecting  the  Mississippi  river  with  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  in  relation 
to  the  ship-canal  to  connect  the  Mississippi  river  with 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico.    April  15,  1874.    126  pp.    8°. 

J^Sd  Congress.,  1st  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
220.  1614 

Eock  Island  and  Hennepin  canal.     Report  from  the  Com- 
mittee on  railways  and  canals.    June  10,  1874.    6  pp.    8°. 
43 d'  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  643.  1626 


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1876.  Canal  to  connect  the  Wabash  river  and  Lake  Michigan. 
Letter  .  .  .  transmitting  a  copy  of  the  report  of  Maj. 
G.  L.  Gillespie,  on  routes  for  a  canal  to  connect  Wabash 
river  and  Lake  Michigan.  January  17,  1876.  11  pp.  8°. 
l^lfth  Congress^  1st  session.  House  executive  docutnent  no. 
86.  1689 


1876.  Water  communication  between  the  Mississippi  river  and  ki- 
lantic  ocean.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  Avar,  trans- 
mitting  the  report  of  the  Chief  of  engineers  on  the  prac- 
ticability and  cost  of  inland  water  communication  be- 
tween the  Mississippi  river  and  the  Atlantic  ocean,  etc. 
April  4,  1876.  37  pp.  8°. 
JfJfth  Congress.)  1st  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
157.  1689 

1876.  Report  on  the  transportation  route  along  the  Wisconsin  and 

and  Fox  rivers,  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  between  the 
Mississippi  river  and  Lake  Michigan,  by  Gouverneur  K. 
Warren.     1876.     114  pp.     Folded  plates.     8°. 
Jf.Ji.th  Congress.,  1st  session.    Senate  executive  document  no. 
28.  1664 

1877.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting  a  copy  of  a 

report  of  Lieut.  Col.  Q.  A.  Gillmore,  Corps  of  engineers, 
,  on  a  water  line  of  transportation  from  the  mouth  of  Saint 
Mary's  river  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  January  22,  1877. 
26  pp.  8°. 
Ji.Jfth  Congress.,  2d  session.  Senate  executive  document  no. 
22.  1719 

1878.  Improvement  of  the  Mississippi  river.     Report  from  the 

Committee   on   levees   and   improvement    of   the    Missis- 
sippi River.     1878.     12  pp.     Folded  map.     8°. 
Jf5th  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  71 J^.  1825 

1878.  Water  transportation  between  Lakes  Michigan  and   Erie. 

Report    from    the    Committee    on    railways    and    canals. 
June  19,  1878.     1  page.     8°. 
Jf5th  Congress.,  2d  sessio7i.    House  report  no.  1010.  1826 

1879.  Illinois  river  and  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal.     Report  of 

G.  J.  Lydecker,  Corps  of  Engineers.     Feb.  12,  1879.     13 
pp.     8°. 
Jfdth  Congress,  3d  session.    House  executive  document  no.  81. 

1858 


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1880.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting  report  of  the 
results  of  an  examination  made  of  the  peninsula  of  Flor- 
ida, Avith  a  view  to  the  construction  of  a  ship-canal  from 
Saint  Mary's  River  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  April  22, 1880. 
88  pp.  Folded  map.  8°. 
Ji.6th  Congress^  2d  8ession.  Senate  executive  document  no. 
15  J^.  1885 

1880.     "Water  route  between  Lakes  Michigan   and  Erie.     Report 
from  the  Committee  on  railways  and  canals.     January  23, 

1880.     2  pp.     8°. 
J^Gth  Congress^  2d  session.    House  report  no.  155.  1934 

1882.     Improvement  of  the  Mississippi  river.     Report  from  the 
Committee  on  levees  and  improvements  of  the  Mississippi 
river.     Mar.  24,  1882.     100  pp.     Map.     8°. 
Jf7fh  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  848.  2067 

1882.     Survey  of  a  ship  canal  across  the  state  of  Michigan.     Report 
from  the  Committee  on  railways  and  canals.     Mar.  29, 

1882.     3  pp.     8°. 
4'/fh  Oong7'ess,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  879.  2067 

1882.  The  Illinois  and  Mississippi  canal.     Report  from  the  Com- 

mittee on  railways  and  canals.     April  11, 1882.     9  pp.   8°. 
47th  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  1000.  2068 

1883.  Report,  with  accompanying  map,  of  the  Board  of  Engineer 

officers  constituted  to  consider  and  report  the  cost  of  con- 
structing the  Sturgeon  Bay  and  Lake  Michigan  ship  canal. 
Jan.  9,  1883.     23  pp.     Folded  map.     8=. 
47th  Congress,  2d  session.     Senate  executive  document  no. 
34.  2076 

1883.  Canal  from  Hennepin  to  the  Mississippi  river.    Letter  from 

AV.  H.  H.  Benyaurd,  Corps  of  Engineers.     Feb.  28,  1883. 
11  pp.     8°. 
47th  Congress,  2d  session.     Senate  executive  document  no. 
78.  2076 

1884.  A  communication  from  the  governor  of  the  state  of  Illinois 

with  a  copy  of  an  act  of  the  general  assembly  of  that 
state,  tendering  to  the  Ignited  States  the  cession  of  the 
Illinois  and  Michigan  canal,  upon  condition  that  it  sliall 
be  enlarged  and  maintained  as  a  national  water-way  for 
commercial  purposes.  Jan.  8,  1884.  4.")  pp.  Folded 
maps.  8°. 
48th  Congress,  1st  session.  Senate  executive  document  no. 
38.  2162 


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1884.     Report  of  the  Select  committee  of  the  United  States  Senate 
on  the  Mississippi   river  improvements.     Jan.   15,   1884. 
xxiii,  106  pp.     Map.     8^. 
l^Sth  CongresH^  1st  session.    Senate  report  no.  36.  2173 

1884.     Michigan  and  Mississippi  canah    Report  from  the  Commit- 
tee on  railways  and  canals.     Feb.  12,  1884.     2  pp.     8°. 
JiSth  Congress^  1st  session.    House  report  no.  339.  2253 

1884.     Grant  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal.    Report  from  the 
Committee  on  railways  and  canals.     April  12,  1884.     3 
pp.     8°. 
Ji8th  Congress.)  1st  sessio7i.    House  report  no.  129 If.  2257 

1886.  Hennepin  canal.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  trans- 
mitting report  from  the  chief  of  engineers  of  additional 
surveys,  by  Maj.  Thomas  H.  Handburg,  of  routes  for 
Hennepin  canal.  March  8,  1886.  48  pp.  Folded 
map.  8°. 
49th  Congress.,  1st  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
117.  2398 

1886.  Illinois  and  Mississippi  river  canal.    Report  from  the  Com- 

mittee   on     railways    and    canals.     Feb.     17,     1886.     10 
pp.     8°. 
49th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  574.  2436 

1887.  Laws  of  the  United  States  relating  to  the  improvement  of 

rivers  and  harbors  from  August  11,  1790,  to  March  3, 
1887,  with  a  tabulated  statement  of  appropriations  and 
allotments.  Compiled  in  the  Office  of  tlie  Chief  of  en- 
gineers, U.  S.  Army,  under  the  direction  of  John  G. 
Parke. 

Washington:  Government  printing  o-ffice.,  1887.    579  pp.    8°. 

49th  Congress,  2d  session.    Senate  miscellaneous  document 

no.  91.  2451 

1887.  Michigan  and  Illinois  canal.  A  report  of  the  Board  of  En- 
gineers upon  the  proposed  acquisition,  by  the  government, 
of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  canal  and  construction  of  the 
Hennepin  canal.  Jan.  11,  1887.  169  pp.  Folded  maps. 
8°. 

49th  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  executive  document  no.  79. 

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1890.     Survey  of  water- waj''  from  Lake  INIichigan  to  the  Illinois 

river,     Eeport  of  ^Y.  L.  Marshall,  Corps  of  Engineers. 

Mar.  11,  1890.    2  parts.    Folded  maps.    Folded  charts.  8°. 

51st  Congress,  1st  session.    House  executive  document  264, 

pt.  1,  2.  2748 

1890.  Illinois  and  Mississippi  canal.  A  preliminarj^  report  upon 
the  location  of  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi  canal  by  AV.  L. 
Marshall,  Corps  of  Engineers.  April  9,  1890.  7  pp. 
Folded  charts.  8°. 
61st  Congress,  1st  session.  House  executive  document  no. 
316.  2750 

1890.     Illinois  and  Mississippi  canal.    Final  report  of  W.  L.  Mar- 
shall, Corps  of  Engineers.    June  28,  1890.    21  pp.   Folded 
table.    8°. 
51st  Congress,  1st  session.     House  executive  document  no. 
429.  2752 

1890.     Ship  canal  around  the  Falls  of  Niagara.    Report  from  the 
Committee  on  railroads  and  canals.     April  14,  1890.     35 
pp.    8°. 
51st  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  1430.  2811 

1892.     Report  on  the  internal  commerce  of  the  United  States  for 

the  year  1891.    Part  ii  of  Commerce  and  navigation.    The 

commerce  of  the  Great  Lakes,  the  Mississippi  river  and 

its  tributaries.     S.  G.  Brock. 

Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1892.     (2),  Hi,  Ixi, 

96  pp.     Folded  map.    8°. 

52d  Congress,  1st  session.    House  executive  document  no.  6, 

part  2.  2948 

Appendix  no.  1.   "  The  commerce  and  shipping  of   the  Great 

Lakes,"   Special  report  by  C.  H.  Keep:  2.  "The  commerce 

of  the  Mississippi,"  Special  report  by  George  H.  Morgan. 

1892.     Ship  canal  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  navigable  waters  of 
the  Hudson  river.     Report  from  the  Committee  on  rail- 
ways and  canals.    April  8,  1892.     49  pp.     8°. 
52d  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  1023.  3045 

Reprinted  in  full  in  House  report  no.  913,  53d  Congress,  2d 
session. 


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1894. 


1894. 


1894. 


1894. 


1896. 


1897. 


1898. 


1899. 


Exposition  of  the  advantages  and  value  of  a  barge  canal 
connecting  the  waters  of  the  Mississippi  river,  through 
the  state  of  Florida,  with  the  waters  of  the  Atlantic  sea- 
board, by  Robert  Gamble.     March  13,  1894.     56  pp.     8°. 

53d  Congress^  2d  session.  Senate  miscellaneous  document 
no.  118.  3171 


Canal  connecting  Lake  Superior  with  the  Mississippi  river. 

Eeport  from  the  Committee  on  railways  and  canals.    May 

3,  1894.     5  pp.     8°. 
53d  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  830.  3271 

Ship  canal  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  navigable  waters  of 
the  Hudson  river.  Report  from  the  Committee  on  rail- 
ways and  canals.     May  17,  1894,     50  pp.     8°. 

53d  Congress,  2d  session.    House  report  no.  913.  3271 

Pp.  2-50  are  a  reprint  of  House  report  no.  1023,  52d  Congress, 
1st  session. 

Papers  and  maps  to  accompany  memorial  of  Maj.  Robert 
Gamble,  showing  the  advantages  and  value  of  a  barge 
canal  connecting  the  waters  of  the  Mississippi  river  and 
A-tlantic  seaboard.  Dec.  20,  1894.  24  pp.  Folded  maps. 
8°. 

53d  Congress,  3d  session.  Senate  miscellaneous  document 
no.  37.  3281 

Lake  Superior  and  Mississippi  canal.  Report  from  Clinton 
B.  Sears,  Corps  of  Engineers.  Mar.  30,  1896.  65  pp. 
Folded  maps.     Folded  charts.     8°. 

5Jfth  Congress,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  330.       3428 

Report  of  the  United  States  deep  waterways  commission, 
prepared  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  December  18-22,  1896,  by 
the  commissioners,  James  B.  Angell,  John  E.  Russell, 
Lyman  E.  Cooley.  Jan.  18,  1897.  263  pp.  Folded  maps 
and  diagrams.     8°. 

5^th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  192.       3527 

Statistics  of  Lake  commerce.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of 
the  treasury,  transmitting  a  report  made  to  the  Bureau 
of  statistics  by  Mr.  George  G.  Tunell,  of  Chicago,  on  lake 
commerce.     February  3,  1898.     106  pp.     8°. 

55th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  277.      3679 

Lake    Superior-Mississippi   river  canal.     Letter   from   the 

Chief  of  Engineers.     Dec.  7,  1899.     16  pp.     8°. 
56th  Congress,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  69.        3954 


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1900. 


1900. 


1902. 


1904. 


1905. 


1906. 


Final  report  on  survey  of  Upper  Illinois  and  Lower  Des 
Plaines  rivers,  Illinois.  Dec.  G,  1900.  11  pp.  Folded 
charts.     8°. 

56th  Congress^  2d  session.    House  document  no.  112.       4135 

Report  of  the  Board  of  engineers  on  deep  waterways  be- 
tween the  Great  Lakes  and  the  Atlantic  tide  waters  .  .  . 
Dec.  7,  1900.  Referred  to  the  Committee  on  rivers  and 
harbors  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Washington:  Government  printing  office^  19G0.  2  vols. 
Illustrations.  Plates.  ^°.  Atlas,  11^1  folded  maps  and 
profiles.     lt°. 

56th  Congress.,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  11^9. 

4145^147 
The  Illinois   and  Mississippi  canal.     Special  report  from 

J.  H.  Willard,  Corps  of  Engineers.     Jan.  22,  1902.     5  pp. 

8°. 
57th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  297.       4337 

Improvement  of  the  Mississippi  river.  Report  of  the  hear- 
ing held  February  3,  1904,  embodying  also  report  of  a 
convention  held  October  27-28,  1903,  at  New  Orleans. 
April  4,  1904.  Presented  by  Mr.  Berry  and  ordered  to  be 
printed.     116  pp.     8°. 

58th  Congress,  2d  session.    Senate  document  no.  2Jf5.       4592 

Report  upon  survey,  with  plans  and  estimates  of  cost,  for  a 
navigable  waterway  14  feet  deep  from  Lockport,  111., 
by  way  of  Des  Plaines  and  Illinois  rivers,  to  the  mouth 
of  said  Illinois  river,  and  thence  by  way  of  the  ^Mississippi 
river  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  for  a  navigable  waterway 
of  7  and  8  feet  depth,  respectively,  from  tlie  head  of  navi- 
gation of  Illinois  river  at  Lasalle,  III.,  through  said  river 
to  Ottawa,  111.,  by  the  Mississippi  River  commission, 
covering  the  section  below  the  mouth  of  the  Inninois  river, 
and  by  a  Board  of  officers  of  the  corps  of  engineers,  U.  S. 
army,  covering  the  section  above  the  mouth  of  the  Illi- 
nois river.  1905.  544  pp.  Plates.  17  maps  (IG  folded). 
8°. 

59th  Congress,  1st  session.    House  document  no.  263.      5023 

Mississippi  river  improvements.  House.  Committee  on 
levees  and  improvements  of  the  Mi.ssissippi  river.  [Hear- 
ing. March  30,  190G.]     22  p.     8°. 

Statement  of  Oswald  H.  Ernst,  president  of  the  Mississippi 
river   commission. 


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1906.     Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  ship  canal  company.     Report 
from  the  Committee  on  commerce.    March  23, 1906.    13  pp. 

8°. 
59th  Congress^  1st  session.    Senate  report  no.  1997.         4904 

1906.     Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  ship  canal  company.     Report 
from  the  Committee  on  railways  and  canals.     February 
15,  1906.     10  pp.     8°. 
59th  Congress.,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  13^3.  4906 

1906.     Lake  Erie  and  Ohio  river  ship  canal.     Report  from  the 
Committee  of  conference.     June  27,  1906.    4  pp.     8°. 
59th  Congress,  1st  session.    House  report  no.  505ii.  4908 

1906.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting  letter  from 
the  Acting  chief  of  engineers,  U.  S.  Army,  with  inclosures, 
concerning  the  facts  and  data  in  the  possession  of  the  War 
department  relating  to  the  construction  of  miles  19  to  23 
of  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi  canal  (Eastern  section), 
etc.  December  10,  1906.  5  pp.  8°. 
59th  Congress,  2cl  session.    Senate  document  no.  103.        5070 

1906.     Annual   report  of  the   Chief  of  engineers,  United   States 
army,  and  of  subordinate  engineers  upon  the  improve- 
ment of  rivers  and  harbors,  and  report  of  the  Mississippi 
river  commission  for  the  fiscal  year  ended  June  30,  1906. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1906.     2  vols.     8°. 
59th  Congress,  2d  session.     House  document  no.  22. 

5144-5145 

1906.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting,  with  a  letter 

from  the  Chief  of  engineers,  report  containing  plan  and 
estimate  for  new  lock  for  St.  Marys  Falls  canal,  Michigan. 
December  20,  1906.    6  pp.     Folded  plans.    8°. 
59th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  no.  333.       5153 

1907.  Laws  of  the  United  States  relating  to  the  improvement  of 

rivers  and  harbors  from  August  11,  1790,  to  March  4, 
1907.     Compiled  in  the  Office  of  the  chief  of  engineers, 
U.  S.  army. 
Washington:  Government  printing  office,  1907.    2  vols.     8°. 
58th  Congress,  3d  session.    House  document  Jf25. 

4881-4882 
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1907. 


1907. 


1907. 


1907. 


River  and  harbor  bill.  Report  from  the  Committee  on  com- 
merce. <To  accompany  H.  R.  24991.  >  Feb.  16,  1907. 
625  pp.     8°. 

59th  Congress^  2d  session.    Senate  report  669^.  5061 

Mississippi  River  between  Missouri  River  and  St.  Paul, 
Minn.  Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting, 
with  a  letter  from  the  chief  of  engineers,  report  of  esti- 
mate for  six-foot  channel  in  the  Mississippi  River  between 
the  Missouri  River  and  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Jan.  3,  1907. 
18  pp.     8°. 

69th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  34-1.  5153 

Report  by  C.  S.  Riche,  submitting  the  report  and  estimate  by 
C.  W.  Durliam,  with  indorsement  by  W.  H.  Bixby,  division 
engineer. 

Interior  waterway  from  the  Rio  Grande  to  the  Mississippi. 
Letter  from  the  Secretary  of  war,  transmitting,  with  a 
letter  from  the  chief  of  engineers,  report  of  examination 
of  project  for  interior  waterway  from  the  Rio  Grande  to 
the  Mississippi.  Feb.  1,  1907.  53  pp.  Folded  map. 
Tables.     8°. 

59th  Congress,  2d  session.    House  document  61fi.  5156 

"  Preliminary  examination  with  plan  and  estimate  of  cost  of 
improvement  of  inhind  waterway  along  the  coast  of  Louis- 
iana and  Texas  from  the  Mississippi  River  at  Donaldson- 
ville,  La,,  to  Rio  Grande,"  by  Edgar  Jadwin,  pp.  3-2S. 


Report  of  the  Chief  of  the  Engineer  department,  1907. 
Washington:   Gooernment   printing   office,  1907.    862, 
pp.    8°.     {War  department  doc.  305.) 


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